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(Beyond Pesticides, January 23, 2015) Pesticide-centered Program Approved Despite 30,000 Opposition Letters. <\/em>Eleven groups, including Beyond Pesticides and the City of Berkeley, sued the California Department of Food and Agriculture yesterday over the agency\u2019s approval of a statewide \u201cpest management\u201d plan that allows pesticide spraying on schools, organic farms and residential yards, including aerial spraying over homes in rural areas. California regulators approved the program despite tens of thousands of public comment letters calling for a less toxic approach that would \"cdfa\"protect the vitality and resilience of the state\u2019s food system and the economic interests of organic farmers.<\/p>\n

“Environmental review laws are there to prevent abuses,” says Jay Feldman, Executive Director of Beyond Pesticides, “Agencies cannot make unilateral decisions to ignore mandatory health and environmental safety standards.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state offers no evidence to support its conclusion that this pesticide-centered program will have no effect on our health,\u201d said Debbie Friedman, cofounder of MOMS Advocating Sustainability. \u201cAs a parent, I am particularly disturbed that health risks of pesticide residues for children aged two and under are dismissed based on the absurd reasoning that infants spend most of their time indoors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The approved program allows the state to use, without any additional environmental review, 79 pesticides that cause cancer, birth defects and reproductive harm and are also highly toxic to bees, butterflies, fish and birds. Pesticides used in the program include chlorpyrifos<\/a>, which is banned in Europe and a recent U.S. EPA study found poses hazards to workers and drinking water; the neonicotinoid imidacloprid<\/a>, which is highly toxic to bees; the deadly, ozone-depleting fumigant methyl bromide<\/a>, which is being phased out because of an international treaty; and chloropicrin, which causes genetic damage. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation last week announced strict new standards for chloropicrin because of the threat is poses to public health.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis program puts people and some of California\u2019s most imperiled species, like salmon and tiger salamanders, directly in harm\u2019s way from dangerous pesticides,\u201d said Jonathan Evans, toxics and endangered species campaign director at the Center for Biological Diversity. \u201cIt\u2019s frightening that the state would spray these toxic chemicals throughout California without fully analyzing their effects or telling the public of the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plan<\/a>, approved Dec. 24 as part of the Statewide Plant Pest Prevention and Management Environmental Impact Report, allows these dangerous chemicals to be used anywhere in the state, any time into the indefinite future, without an option for affected communities to stop the spray. The state can also approve new pesticide treatments and treatment sites behind closed doors without public scrutiny or notice.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, filed in Alameda Superior Court, outlines numerous ways the spray plan violates state environmental laws, including failure to notify the public of future pesticide spraying and failure to analyze the impacts of the pesticides on human and environmental health, including harm to infants and contamination of drinking water.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat will it take to make the state accountable to the tens of thousands of individuals who wrote comment letters asking the state to adopt a modern, sustainable pest management approach that would ensure that food and nursery plants are not contaminated by pesticides?\u201d said Nan Wishner, board member of the California Environmental Health Initiative.<\/p>\n

\u201cMunicipal drinking water sources that are already contaminated with pesticides would be further degraded by this pesticide program. How can the department realistically claim that pesticides sprayed under this program will never reach any of those bodies of water?\u201d said attorney Jason Flanders of ATA Law Group.<\/p>\n

The suit was brought by Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Working Group, California Environmental Health Initiative, MOMS Advocating Sustainability, Center for Food Safety, City of Berkeley, Pesticide Action Network North America, Center for Environmental Health, Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, Beyond Pesticides, Californians for Pesticide Reform, and Safe Alternatives for our Forest Environment. The plaintiffs are represented by Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, and Hampton, along with ATA Law Group.<\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: Press Release<\/p>\n

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California regulators approved the program despite tens of thousands of public comment letters calling for a less toxic approach that would protect the vitality and resilience of the state\u2019s food system and the economic interests of organic farmers. “Environmental review laws are there to prevent abuses,” says Jay Feldman, Executive Director of Beyond Pesticides, “Agencies cannot make unilateral decisions to ignore mandatory health and environmental safety standards.” \u201cThe state offers no evidence to support its conclusion that this pesticide-centered program will have no effect on our health,\u201d said Debbie Friedman, cofounder of MOMS Advocating Sustainability. \u201cAs a parent, I am particularly disturbed that health risks of pesticide residues for children aged two and under are dismissed based on the absurd reasoning that infants spend most of their time indoors.\u201d The approved program allows the state to use, without any additional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,20,21,33,71,62,67,9,10,93,19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-california","category-chemicals","category-chlorpyrifos","category-imidacloprid","category-litigation","category-methyl-bromide","category-national-politics","category-pesticide-regulation","category-pollinators","category-statelocal","category-wildlifeenvironment"],"yoast_head":"\nCalifornia Plan Violates Protections from Pesticide Spraying, According to Lawsuit - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2015\/01\/california-plan-violates-protections-from-pesticide-spraying-according-to-lawsuit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California Plan Violates Protections from Pesticide Spraying, According to Lawsuit - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Beyond Pesticides, January 23, 2015) Pesticide-centered Program Approved Despite 30,000 Opposition Letters. 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