California Pesticide Regulators’ Lax Oversight Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges

WATSONVILLE, Calif.—A broad coalition of pesticide-reform groups representing California farmworkers and their families called on the state attorney general to investigate systematic civil rights violations last week at a press briefing in Watsonville, a strawberry-growing stronghold about 90 miles south of San Francisco. “The state of California uses more harmful pesticides than any other and … Continue reading California Pesticide Regulators’ Lax Oversight Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges