Articles Tagged with ''chlorpyrifos ban''

CalEPA’s environmental health office may require products containing chlorpyrifos and methyl bromide to carry cancer warning labels under Prop. 65.

The end of Temperance Flat? * ‘Now or never’ for stimulus? * Bumper crops slow shipping

Newsom bans rodenticides * Fairs help with fires * Citrus Stride goes virtual * CCC funding set to clear * Crunch time for covid talks

One bill bans second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides statewide, the other adds more reporting for chlorpyrifos.

United Farm Workers, a co-sponsor of the bill, labeled CDFA Secretary Karen Ross as “dangerous” for negotiating an exemption on the granular form under the ban.

Agricultural trade groups are responding with optimism to a much-anticipated report proposing alternatives to the pesticide chlorpyrifos that the Newsom administration released last week.