Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network works to cultivate resilient, safe, and equitable food and farming systems that do not profit from injustice. But right now, federal agents are using racial profiling to target potential undocumented
EPA doesn’t need to wait for new science to ban paraquat in the United States. Credible research meeting EPA’s “gold standard” tenets has already been submitted to EPA’s public docket demonstrating that exposure to paraquat
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission’s strategy addressing children’s health was billed as a way to address declining public health, with a particular focus on curtailing recent increases in chronic illness in children. However,
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans today to re-approve three formulations of the dangerous, drift-prone pesticide dicamba for use on genetically engineered (GE) cotton and soybeans.
Today, farmworker and public health groups represented by Earthjustice, sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to respond to a petition to ban organophosphate pesticides, a class of chemicals used on fruits, vegetables, and
Eleven organizations representing civil society and Indigenous Peoples across the globe welcome the statement by the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) that it has officially ended its Letter of Intent (LoI) with pesticide industry
On April 1, 2024, Mexico was set to follow through with its 2020 commitment to ban the toxic herbicide glyphosate (the active ingredient in Bayer’s Roundup in the USA and Faena in Mexico) by 2024.
PAN opposes the decision by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse EPA’s ban on the neurotoxic pesticide Chlorpyrifos, an insecticide associated with serious neurological damage in humans, with children being most at risk.
Farmworkers and other underrepresented groups impacted by hazardous pesticide exposure will now have a seat at the table where pesticide policy in California is decided, thanks to a new law signed today by Governor Gavin