pesticide

  • Hearings This Week on Landmark Case Against Pesticide

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SAN FRANCISCO – A landmark series of hearings continue all this week, looking at claims that Roundup, the most common pesticide in the world, is linked to cancer. A federal judge in San Francisco won’t decide if that’s true, however. Rather, he’ll rule on whether the...
  • California May Restrict Pesticide After Feds Refuse to Ban It

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California regulators have moved one step closer to placing big restrictions on the use of a pesticide that President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency refused to ban earlier this year. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation just released an updated draft...
  • Farmworker Advocates Urge Suspension of Highly Toxic Pesticide

    Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Advocates say the nation’s two million farmworkers deserve a safe place to work, free of hazardous chemicals, so they petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday September 21, 2016 to ban the use of a toxic pesticide called chlorpyrifos....
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