Pesticides

The Latest On: Pesticides

March 4, 2021 | Letter

Chlorpyrifos Comment Letter (March 2021)

One hundred farmworker, public health, and environmental organizations led by Earthjustice submitted a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging the Biden administration to ban chlorpyrifos. In December, Trump’s EPA proposed that 11 food uses of the neurotoxic pesticide continue, prolonging harmful exposure to children, farmworkers, and endangered species.

February 5, 2021 | In the News: The Capitol Press Room

DEC moves toward complete ban of long-used pesticide

An interview with Peter Lehner, Managing Attorney of the Sustainable Food and Farming Program at Earthjustice

February 1, 2021 | In the News: Chemical & Engineering News

Are chlorpyrifos’s days numbered?

Patti Goldman, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office, Earthjustice: "I believe at some point we will start having these chemicals out of our food supply."

December 29, 2020 | Legal Document

Rural & Migrant Ministry et al v EPA - TRO Decision

Plaintiffs move for a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) and a preliminary injunction enjoining a regulation of the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), scheduled to be implemented on December 29, 2020, from going into effect. Plaintiffs also move for a stay pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 705. For the following reasons, the TRO is granted and the Court will stay the effective date of the challenged rule, until January 12, 2021, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 705, pending a hearing on the application for a preliminary injunction.

December 21, 2020 | Legal Document