For Immediate Release: February 14, 2020 CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI: Late this afternoon, a jury in a U.S. District Court in Cape Girardueu, Missouri issued a verdict finding Bayer and BASF liable for plaintiff Bader Farms’ 30,000+ damaged peach trees due to drifting of the broad
This morning, the federal Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposed interim decision to allow the re-registration of atrazine, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide. Pesticide Action Network Staff Scientist Emily Marquez, Ph.D., issued the following statement in response to EPA’s decision: “After announcing that they will weaken environmental
In a victory for children, workers and future generations, European governments will not renew authorization of the dangerous pesticide Today, representatives from the European Member States Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed voted to ban the neurotoxic pesticides chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl from the European
For immediate release – October 9, 2019 SACRAMENTO, CA — This afternoon, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) announced sales of the neurodevelopmental toxicant pesticide chlorpyrifos will end by February 2020, and use will end by December 2020. Until then, all uses must comply with
For Immediate Release—Aug 14, 2019 SACRAMENTO, CA — This morning, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration filed notices with Dow (now Corteva) and other manufacturers of the neurodevelopmental toxicant pesticide chlorpyrifos to cancel chlorpyrifos product registrations. This filing marks the formal start of proceedings to cancel
Chlorpyrifos is linked to learning and intellectual disabilities in children For Immediate Release—Aug 7, 2019 SEATTLE, WA— Today, health and labor organizations, including Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN), sued Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency for refusing to ban a widely used agricultural pesticide linked to
Earlier today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the agency would approve and expand allowable uses for the pesticide sulfoxaflor, a close cousin to neonicotinoids, which are known to pose a serious threat to the health of bees and other pollinators. This decision reverses
Oakland, CA – In a third consecutive historic ruling against Monsanto (now Bayer) and its glyphosate-based Roundup pesticide, a jury in the San Francisco Superior Court in Oakland, California found Bayer liable for plaintiffs Alva and Alberta Pilliod’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The plaintiffs were awarded over
For immediate release: May 8, 2019 Sacramento, CA – Today, leaders with California Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration announced a historic decision to initiate the process to cancel the registration for use in the state of the neurodevelopmental toxicant pesticide chlorpyrifos. Robust studies have linked prenatal