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Fumigants

Farmworkers and Allies Stage Die-in at California Pesticide Hearing

Frustrated by regulators ignoring their pleas for protection from a cancer-causing fumigant, farmworkers and their supporters gave a dramatic display of the lethal consequences of inaction.

By Liza Gross

Protesters hold signs in opposition of the cancer-causing 1,3-D at a hearing covering proposed regulation of the fumigant on Jan. 16 in Salinas, Calif. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News
Migrant workers pick strawberries during harvest on a farm south of San Francisco. Credit: Visions of America/Joe Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

Farmworkers pick strawberries on a field in Oxnard, Calif. Growers applied more than 60 million pounds of the fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene on crops such as strawberries to kill nematodes and other soil-dwelling organisms in 2018, the most recent year data is available. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

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