In 2025, families faced uncertainty, organizers felt exhaustion and frontline communities continued to live with the daily reality of pesticide exposure. Yet even amid struggle, the year reminded us [...] Continue Reading
Environment
Southeast Development Project Scaled Back
Community activism is forcing the City of Fresno to rethink its ambitious and controversial Southeast Development Area (SEDA) plan. The proposed development project of massive proportions would [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Briefs
Latino Voters Speak UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization, released its “Bipartisan Poll of Hispanic Voters: The Road to 2026” in early November. Here are [...] Continue Reading
La Política Sobre el 1,3-D Pone en Peligro a Nuestros Hijos
POR CRISTINA GUTIERREZ Las recientes regulaciones del Departamento de Regulación de Pesticidas (DPR) permiten que los escolares estén expuestos a 1,3-D 14 veces más que el nivel de exposición [...] Continue Reading
Farming Communities Protest Fumigant Regulations
Californians for Pesticide Reform has launched an assault on the state’s regulation of agricultural fumigants 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D) and chloropicrin, calling on the Department of Pesticide [...] Continue Reading
Comunidades Protestan Contra las Regulaciones de Fumigantes
La organización Californians for Pesticide Reform (Californianos por la Reforma de los Pesticidas) ha lanzado una ofensiva contra la regulación estatal de los fumigantes agrícolas 1,3-dicloropropeno y [...] Continue Reading
Print Media Matters, Keep it Alive!
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Protect Children from Hazardous Pesticides
October is Children’s Environmental Health Month in California, and there’s no better time to face a hard truth: Here in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, in counties like Fresno and Tulare, [...] Continue Reading
Trump and Schwarzenegger Share Values
(Editor’s note: This article was first published in the Fresno Bee on Aug. 28.) Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced his opposition to current governor Gavin Newsom’s [...] Continue Reading
No More Broken Promises
For decades, rural communities in California have carried the burden of toxic pesticides sprayed near their homes, schools and workplaces. Among the worst is 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), a [...] Continue Reading