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Trump’s latest interior secretary nominee threw out report on pesticides that threaten 1,200 species

“The findings were set to become public at the end of 2017. But then … they didn’t. Instead, Donald Trump inserted industry lobbyist David Bernhardt as deputy secretary of the interior. Bernhardt blocked the release of the information, announced new rules narrowing the means by which Fish and Wildlife could evaluate the data, and sent the whole study back …

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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration’s Refusal to Release Records on Pesticide Harms to Endangered Wildlife

With Sonoma County close to applying 3 million pounds of chemicals in the vineyards yearly and Napa with far less vineyards, 1.5 million pounds of chemicals in 2015 (2016 stats released in June) how can this industry call itself sustainable? Napa and Sonoma have abnormally high rates of childhood cancer. (www.kidsdata.org/cancer) From our friends at Center …

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