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News Coverage
- 06/07/2017 CBS San Francisco Area: California Fights EPA Decision To Allow Neurotoxic Pesticide On Food
- 06/06/2017 Baltimore Sun: Maryland’s Frosh, six other attorneys general accuse EPA of ignoring science on safety of pesticide
- 06/06/2017 The Arizona Republic; Feds find ‘simply inhumane’ living conditions for workers at Arizona farm
- 06/06/2017 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The U.S. Department of Labor will be targeting farms to make sure employers and their immigrant workers are in compliance with the H-2A work visa. 1 Farm labor investigated as Trump targets foreign worker visa programs
- 06/06/2017 LA Times: EPA scientists said ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos. Scott Pruitt said no
- 06/06/2017 Huffington Post: EPA Inspector General Probing Whether Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto
- 06/06/2017 East Valley Times (CA): Attorney General Xavier Becerra calls on EPA Administrator to issue safety findings on pesticide
- 06/06/2017 Bloomberg BNA: States to Pruitt: Don’t Reverse Course on Dow Insect-Killer
- 06/06/2017 Union of Concerned Scientists: 7 States Give Pruitt an “F” in Science, Challenge EPA Over Pesticide That Harms Children
- 06/06/2017 VermontBiz: TJ Donovan joins opposition to EPA order on toxic pesticide
- 06/06/2017 News 10 (Albany NY): NY, Mass, VT Attorney Generals challenge EPA over pesticides
- 06/06/2017 AZCentral: Feds find ‘simply inhumane’ living conditions for workers at Arizona farm
- 06/06/2017 New York State Attorney General: A.G. Schneiderman Challenges Trump EPA Over Toxic Pesticide
- 06/06/2017 Think Progress: 7 states challenge Trump’s EPA for ignoring science, failing to ban pesticide linked to brain damage
- 06/02/2017 MomsRising: It was like being in a real-life horror movie
- 06/02/2017 Los Angeles Times: Desired for their labor, rejected as neighbors. Farmworkers in California face hostile communities
- 06/01/2017 NY Times Opinion | The Womb Is No Protection From Toxic Chemicals
- 05/31/2017 State PIRGs: Court rules that people should be protected from untested pesticides
- 05/31/2017 Half Moon Bay Review (CA): Farmworkers deserve greater government protection
- 05/30/2017 Ventura County Star (CA): Jurors learn records out of pesticide case but not mother’s story
- 05/27/2017 Albany Times Union (NY): Eighty years after Jim Crow, NY farm workers still fighting for rights
- 05/26/2017 Ventura County Star (CA): In birth defects case, mom tells of boy’s pain
- 05/24/2017 Mother Jones: The Trump Administration Just Punted on How to Handle the Most Toxic Pesticides
- 05/23/2017 ABC10 (CA): Bracero programs: A brief history of America’s migrant farm workers legislation
- 05/23/2017 Eater: A New Proposal Could Protect Farmworkers From Deportation