EPA Won't Protect Our Kids. Will California?
The EPA will fight to keep the dangerous pesticide chlorpyrifos in the fields and on our food, at the expense of children’s health. It's time for California t...
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Court Sides with Science, Children’s Health on Chlorpyrifos
After decades of advocacy and thousands of scientific studies, chlorpyrifos—the toxic pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children—may finally be h...
CA Finds Widespread Risk from Pesticide Toxic to Kids
Today, California’s Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) added to the growing body of science raising the alarm about the dangers of the pesticide chlorpy...
CA Chlorpyrifos Announcement Leaves Communities at Risk
On Friday, California’s Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) made big promises to address the risk from the pesticide chlorpyrifos—found to threaten chi...
This Harmful Pesticide Should Have Been Banned Years Ago. Now It Could Finally Happen.
Thankfully, senators are stepping in where Donald Trump’s EPA has fallen down. ...
Seven States Join Effort to Ban Pesticide Toxic to Kids
The states argued that the Trump EPA’s refusal to ban this pesticide from food crops—despite the agency’s own analysis finding it too dangerous for childr...