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What are pesticides?

What you need to know to protect against toxic pest control chemicals

On the frontlines of pesticide exposure

Despite decades of research linking pesticide drift to health harm, regulation remains weak and leaves the most vulnerable with few protections.

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Mobilizing against pesticides from the ground up

Activists from two of California’s biggest agricultural regions describe the fight to protect communities and workers from pesticide exposure.

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Citing birds and bees, groups petition EPA to close pesticide loophole

“The failure to regulate treated seeds creates a gigantic regulatory blind-spot — allowing one of the largest and most widespread uses of pesticides to go almost completely untracked and unregulated."

California pesticides

In 1996, the EPA was ordered to test pesticides for impacts on people’s hormones. They still don’t.

New lawsuit aims to make the agency do what Congress ordered more than 25 years ago.

Adrift: Communities on the front lines of pesticide exposure fight for change

Adrift: Communities on the front lines of pesticide exposure fight for change

Rural communities of color and farmworkers are disproportionately exposed to some of the most dangerous chemicals used in agriculture.

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California’s new pesticide notification system aims to protect public health. Will it work?

Community activists were instrumental in achieving the landmark program. But they worry it won’t go far enough to shield rural communities and farmworkers from pesticide harm.

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Radio Bilingüe brings pesticide reporting by Environmental Health News and palabra to new audiences

Long-time bilingual public radio network airs story based on the series Adrift.

Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines

Montana''swolf hunt continues; China vows to cut back -- a little-- on its intensive use of pesticides.

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Op-ed: What the pesticide industry doesn’t want you to know

Confronting pesticide industry science denialism.

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