Pesticide Use and Civil Rights in Central California: Slow Violence and the StateGregg MaceyCaroline FarrellKayla AndersonAngel GarciaYanely MartinezJane SellenAlexis TemkinMark Weller
Since the 1940s, the responsibility for managing California farmers' use of agricultural pesticides, and the substantial health risks they pose, has been shared by state and county regulators. The state's Department of Pesticide Regulation registers pesticide products; county-level agricultural commission...
contamination of water resources, and pesticide drift (CA OAG website: Environmental Justice;CA OAG Press Release: Attorney General Becerra and California Department of Pesticide Regulation File Complaint Against Alpine Helicopter Service for Exposing California Communities to Public Health Risks). For exam...
California DPR Announces Webinar To Be Held On April 23, 2024, To Discuss Proposed Registration Fee Increase: On March 29, 2024, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) announced it will hold a webinar on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. (PDT) to discuss and ...
The surveillance of work-related pesticide illness: an application of the Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risks (SENSOR) Objectives. In response to limitations in state-based occupational disease surveillance, the California Department of Health Services developed a model for... N ...
Based on a survey of self-reported minor poisoning in Asia, it was estimated that there could be as many as 25 million agricultural workers in the developing world suffering an episode of pesticide poisoning each year (WHO, 1990). The reasons for the high rates of pesticide exposure in ...
Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Pesticide Education Network collaborated for the study, which was obtained by 11 News Investigates before its publishing date, testing 41 volunteers from across the state during the fall. Dr. Ana Rule, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Universi...
The state Department of Food and Agriculture on Friday slapped an immediate statewide ban on use of a major pesticide that is applied on tens of thousands of acres of crops.
Glyphosate is the chemical agent in RoundUp, perhaps the most widely used pesticide in the world. It is now found in a huge percentage of Americans that have beentested for it, and its possible implication in degenerative nerve diseases and lymphomas is a subject of debate. Today in the New...
New York Pesticide Ban In April of 2022, New Yorkmade it illegalfor any pesticides to be used at any camp which operates as a camp for children. 11 Baby Names Banned in New York If you were thinking of giving your baby any of these names and you live in New York, you won't be ...