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Note: The California Dept. of Pesticide Regulations (cdpr.ca.gov) app for smart phone reporting has been a regular component of this website since the app’s inception last year. This is what GASP is referring to. You can download easily from there as well as get information on your rights. New Pesticide Rules for California! …
SWAMP WATCH Center for Food Safety (CFS) was in federal court again this week, this time seeking the reversal of Trump and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) approval of Monsanto’s toxic herbicide, “XtendiMax,” a reformulation of the highly drift-prone and potent herbicide, dicamba, to be used with Monsanto’s new GMO crops. Dicamba is notorious for …
Back to School brings concerns about pesticide exposure By Megan Kaun and Nichole Warwick We live in a beautiful region with idyllic farms and open space. We are a Right to Farm County so we accept the inconveniences from farm operations; strong smells, bright lights, loud noises, etc. It’s a small price to pay to …
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“The only reason farmers are turning to dicamba is to kill the glyphosate-resistant superweeds sprouting across millions of acres. Dumping more and more pesticides on crops just keeps farmers on the pesticide treadmill. Meanwhile neighboring farms and wildlife pay the cost. ”New Dicamba Drift Damage Estimated on More Than 1 Million Acres.” New Dicamba …
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The wine industry admits to their over 2 million pounds of chemicals in Sonoma County they use yearly in the following article. Napa is number one in childhood cancer rates and Sonoma is not far behind. The Dept. of Pesticide Regulations acknowledges that drift cannot be stopped when spraying. Our entire ecological world is being affected by chemical …
Once again corporate profits trump public health. In Sonoma County, several groups have tried to get this legislation made into adopted regulations. One example is the Paul Hobb’s expansion next to 5 schools in the Sebastopol area. He is a chemically intensive grape grower according to County pesticide reports and got away signing a MOU …
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