Items Tagged with 'banning pesticides in California'

The session began with more than 2,000 bills in play and now only a handful remain in the industry’s crosshairs as lawmakers return to the Capitol to wrap up business.

The California State Auditor has issued a scathing report criticizing the California Department of Pesticide Regulation for inefficient processes responsible for growing delays in registering new products.

A progressive Bay Area lawmaker is proposing legislation claiming to protect the health and lives of schoolchildren in California’s agricultural communities, frustrating lawmakers in those communities.

The California Fish and Game Commission has passed a regulation banning the use of the neonicotinoid class of pesticides on lands managed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Agricultural interests feel left out of the discussion with the Newsom administration’s plan to phase out the use of certain controversial pesticides by 2050.

Lawmaker have filed the most in more than a decade, raising the potential for the Legislature to deliver new challenges for farmers already dealing with water shortages, high taxes and exorbitant labor costs.

UC Davis Agricultural Economist Daniel Sumner saluted farmers for remaining strong and resilient by adapting and warned lawmakers to give agriculture the space to innovate.

The regulations would impact more than 70,000 growers and cost them as much as $166 million.

DPR will determine if it should allow the registration of imidacloprid to continue for agricultural use.