For Immediate Release: August 14, 2017 On August 11 and 12, white nationalist groups rallied and marched in Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the state’s decision to take down a confederate statue. Both Nazi and confederate symbols were in abundance. These groups promote hatred and fear,
For Immediate Release: August 18, 2017 Earlier today, California officials at the California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment announced steps to address the threat of the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. Mark Weller, Co-director of Californians
For Immediate Release: July 5th, 2017 Atlantic, Iowa – Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America’s Board of Directors announced earlier today that farmer and community organizer Denise O’Brien will serve as PAN’s new Board President, replacing termed-out board chair Susan Baker. “Food and agriculture are
Advocates press for better notification & protections For Immediate Release: June 27, 2017 Salinas, CA – A major pesticide drift incident that sent 18 farmworkers to the hospital illustrates the need for new rules that provide more stringent notification policies and stronger protections for fieldworkers
Agricultural communities urge state to take immediate action to protect children, farmworkers and rural families For Immediate Release: June 6, 2017 Sacramento, CA – California Attorney General (AG) Xavier Becerra joined six other states in urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow through
Today, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) and partners took the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) back to court over the widely-used pesticide chlorpyrifos. Last week, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that the agency was reversing course on a planned withdrawal of the chemical, ignoring the findings
Washington, DC – Late this evening, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) answered a court-mandated deadline by ignoring scientific evidence — including the agency’s own recent risk assessment — and leaving the brain-harming insecticide chlorpyrifos on the market. EPA banned indoor use of chlorpyrifos use in
After weeks of delay, the Trump Administration finally announced its pick to head the U.S. Department of Agriculture today, tapping former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue. The choice makes the proposed Trump cabinet the least diverse in decades, and adds another climate change skeptic to the
WASHINGTON, DC — Yesterday, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, questioned Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on his commitment to enforce antitrust laws, after President-elect Donald Trump’s meetings with agrichemical giants Monsanto