Items Tagged with 'protecting farmworkers and communities'

The California Agricultural Commissioners and Sealers Association has shared “serious concerns” over dramatic decline in its relationship with the Department of Pesticide Regulation.

The Newsom administration is gaining traction in the Legislature with its proposal to boost the mill assessment. The added revenue would position it to deliver on promises to expedite registrations and evaluations.

Lawmakers have launched the first volleys in policy battles over farmworker protections to play out over the coming months.

The California Farm Bureau is backing a new measure to track the health and economic impacts of wildfire smoke on the state’s population.

Cal/OSHA has drafted a proposal for an indoor heat illness prevention standard. But business and farm groups worried about the feasibility of the protocols.

The Department of Pesticide Regulation is considering new regulations to add for the use of a controversial neonicotinoid to protect drinking water wells from contamination.