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CaliPesticideReform @CAPestReform

Californians for Pesticide Reform is a coalition of more than 190 organizations working together to protect human health and the environment from pesticides.

Joined December 2014
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“Going anywhere near a productive strawberry field is completely insane if you care about your health at all,” Melissa Dennis said. “Strawberries are the most toxic agricultural product in existence.” 1,3-D is a big part of why. @lizabio @CA_PesticideReg insideclimatenews.org/news/2…
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Californians will soon be notified in advance about applications of hazardous agricultural pesticides pesticidereform.org/state-an…
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It's not fair to allow 14 times more cancer-causing 1,3-D than state scientists say is safe @LULAC @safeagsafeschls facebook.com/CALULACofficial…

11 shares | Stop CA’s Environmental Racist Regulation of Cancer...

Stop CA’s Environmental Racist Regulation of Cancer Causing Pesticide 1-3-D (Telón) Department of Pesticide Regulation will hold public hearings on the proposed regulations in January 2025. Spanish...

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Check out who's funded by pesticide companies, and what happens to legislation as a result. Case in point, the #paraquat ban bill AB 1863, “is not a ban. It started out as a ban . . . and then it got watered down to nothing.” usrtk.org/pesticides/pestici…

Pesticide-related PAC money surges into state legislatures as companies seek to limit damage awards...

As pesticide companies struggle to cap legal payouts to plaintiffs who claim they were injured by pesticides, campaign cash from two political committees affiliated with major pesticide manufacturers...

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"1,3-D is the 3rd most used pesticide in CA. No one’s heard of it. No one’s paying attention. It’s scary. When @CA_PesticideReg say, ‘Don’t worry, all levels were below the level of concern,’ that is not the legal level set by @OEHHA.” @_TonyBriscoe latimes.com/environment/stor…

Farm pesticides found floating in California air samples; state officials say it's OK

California officials insist that pesticide air samples remained within healthy limits. However, environmentalists say the state is downplaying the risk.

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Meet the new Roundup, worse than the old Roundup civileats.com/2024/10/22/rep…

In this week’s Field Report, what you need to know about the shift away from glyphosate in Roundu...

In this week’s Field Report, what you need to know about the shift away from glyphosate in Roundup’s garden weedkillers, the Harris-Walz plan for rural America, and more.

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UCI Environmental Law@UCIEnviroLaw
18 Oct 2024
New research published today in the journal Environment by Gregg Macey @UCILaw and colleagues at @CAPestReform, @ewg, @GGU, and @VanderbiltU. "Our framework for analysis of the social dynamics of environmental harm opens new avenues for legal practice." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Pesticide Use and Civil Rights in Central California: Slow Violence and the State

This article presents the findings of the People’s Tribunal on Pesticide Use and Civil Rights (Lindsay, California, September 2023) which provides a nuanced account of the mechanisms by which the s...

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UCI Environmental Law@UCIEnviroLaw
18 Oct 2024
In "New Approaches to Public Data Make the Invisible Visible," we chronicle the decades of research by community leaders and organizations, including @CAPestReform, upon which the environmental law center @UCILaw builds. Read it here: bit.ly/4hczDTb
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Why is @CA_PesticideReg lying to the public about what is in the air? Gov @GavinNewsom myemail.constantcontact.com/…

Serf City Times - Pesticide Regulators Lie - Support Harm Reduction Coalition - Harvest Tour

Email from none View as Webpage Volume 5, Issue 17, Oct. 18, 2024 View as Webpage California Department of Pesticide Regulation send out this email on Oct. 14 telling us that their 2023 Air Monitoring

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For the past three decades, CPR has amassed a record of environmentally unjust and outright racist practices by the state that fail farm working communities @CA_PesticideReg Gov @GavinNewsom tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Pesticide Use and Civil Rights in Central California: Slow Violence and the State

This article presents the findings of the People’s Tribunal on Pesticide Use and Civil Rights (Lindsay, California, September 2023) which provides a nuanced account of the mechanisms by which the s...

tandfonline.com
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Our community air monitoring study with @UCDavisCRC in the San Joaquin Valley, funded by @AirResources, found significant pesticide exposure and a banned chemical #chlorpyrifos @MelissaGomez004 latimes.com/california/story…

Study finds Central Valley residents continually exposed to 'toxic soup' of pesticides

A new study found that as Central Valley residents go about their day, they regularly breathe in pesticides, including one banned in California.

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Thank you Gov @GavinNewsom for signing #AB1864, protecting kids from #pesticide exposure at school and extending the protection to students in private schools & thank you @AsmConnolly for authoring this critical protection! @pesticideaction @VIP_Stanislaus @safeagsafeschls
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Check out our new guide to #pesticide #drift and how to report it! pesticidereform.org/pesticid…
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We are asking Governor @GavinNewsom @CAgovernor to sign AB 1864 and fix the school pesticide buffer zone⚠️ . Thank you to @Senator_Hurtado and Assembly Member Connolly for your support. . This bill has already moved passed the Senate and Assembly. #yesonAB1864
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Brad Hooker@HookerBrad
12 Sep 2024
UC Davis researchers and @CAPestReform worked with 31 adults and 11 children to collect air samples. Nearly a quarter of them detected elevated levels of 1,3-D, chlorpyrifos and other pesticides
Agri-Pulse West@agripulsewest
12 Sep 2024
EJs publish findings from controversial air monitoring effort agri-pulse.com/articles/2163…
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AB 1864 has already moved passed Senate and Assembly - now this bill sits on the Governor's desk! AB 1864 will expand the school pesticide buffer zone to private schools. #ab1864 We're counting on @GavinNewsom @JenSiebelNewsom @CAgovernor to fix the school pesticide buffer zone!
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👉With #ab1864 passing Senate and the Assembly, it is now up to Governor @GavinNewsom to sign AB 1864 and fix the school pesticide buffer zone! ⚠️#yeswecan #schoolbufferzone #yesonab1864 @JenSiebelNewsom . . Thank you @AsmConnolly and @Senator_Hurtado for your support on AB 1864!
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We need Governor Newsom @GavinNewsom to sign AB 1864! This bill has passed the Senate and Assembly, AB 1864 is critical to protecting children attending private and charter schools in California from pesticide harms. ⚠️Fix the school pesticide buffer zone! ⚠️#yesonab1864 #ab1864
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@CAgovernor @JenSiebelNewsom
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