Help protect farmworkers: Take action on this brain-harming pesticide!
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This Farmworker Awareness Week, tell your Governor to protect families from exposure to this brain-harming pesticide!Dear PAOV,
One year ago today, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt reversed course on a planned ban of the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos. The good news? In the wake of the federal government’s stunning failure on chlorpyrifos, advocates across the country are stepping up to protect the health of farmworkers, children and rural communities by calling for state-level action.
The science is crystal clear: chlorpyrifos can harm children's health and development, even at the low levels found as residue in food — and puts farmworkers and rural communities at risk. And as rural resident and mother Claudia Angulo explains, the safety of farmworker families is critical to a thriving food system:
During spray season, children are most vulnerable. At school, headaches and bloody noses are common, but go unreported...We need the children to be safe. This is what a healthy food system would look like.Now, state governments need to step in where EPA has failed to protect families — including Claudia's.
Thank you for all you do!
Pesticide Action Network North America
Berkeley, CA | Minneapolis, MN
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