CaliPesticideReform
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Californians for Pesticide Reform is a coalition of more than 190 organizations working together to protect human health and the environment from pesticides.
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http://www.pesticidereform.org 08-12-2014 19:46:37
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👉With #ab1864 passing Senate and the Assembly, it is now up to Governor Gavin Newsom to sign AB 1864 and fix the school pesticide buffer zone! ⚠️#yeswecan #schoolbufferzone #yesonab1864 Jennifer Siebel Newsom . . Thank you Assemblymember Damon Connolly and Senator Melissa Hurtado for your support on AB 1864!
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 Gavin Newsom Jennifer Siebel Newsom Governor Gavin Newsom to fix the school pesticide buffer zone!
UC Davis researchers and CaliPesticideReform 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
We are asking Governor Gavin Newsom Governor Gavin Newsom to sign AB 1864 and fix the school pesticide buffer zone⚠️ . Thank you to Senator Melissa Hurtado and Assembly Member Connolly for your support. . This bill has already moved passed the Senate and Assembly. #yesonAB1864
Thank you Gov Gavin Newsom for signing #AB1864, protecting kids from #pesticide exposure at school and extending the protection to students in private schools & thank you Assemblymember Damon Connolly for authoring this critical protection! Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network Valley Improvement Projects (VIP) Safe Ag Safe Schools (SASS)
Our community air monitoring study with UC Davis Center for Regional Change in the San Joaquin Valley, funded by CARB, found significant pesticide exposure and a banned chemical #chlorpyrifos Melissa Gomez latimes.com/california/sto…
Study finds Central Valley residents continually exposed to 'toxic soup' of pesticides Melissa Gomez reports latimes.com/california/sto…
New research published today in the journal Environment by Gregg Macey UC Irvine School of Law and colleagues at CaliPesticideReform, EWG, GoldenGateUniversity, and Vanderbilt University. "Our framework for analysis of the social dynamics of environmental harm opens new avenues for legal practice." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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 Dept. of Pesticide Regulation Gov Gavin Newsom tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
In "New Approaches to Public Data Make the Invisible Visible," we chronicle the decades of research by community leaders and organizations, including CaliPesticideReform, upon which the environmental law center UC Irvine School of Law builds. Read it here: bit.ly/4hczDTb
Why is CA Dept. of Pesticide Regulation lying to the public about what is in the air? Gov Gavin Newsom myemail.constantcontact.com/Serf-City-Time…
"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 Dept. of Pesticide Regulation say, ‘Don’t worry, all levels were below the level of concern,’ that is not the legal level set by OEHHA.” Tony Briscoe latimes.com/environment/st…
“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. Liza Gross CA Dept. of Pesticide Regulation insideclimatenews.org/news/20122024/…