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- 05/18/2017 LULAC Facebook Live: Conversation with representatives from Earthjustice and UFW on harmful pesticides and how they negatively impact farmworkers, our children, and our community
- 05/18/2017 Safety+Health magazine: EPA announces 12-month delay of pesticide-handler rule
- 05/18/2017 NJ Spotlight : Assembly Panel Looks to Ban Pesticide OK’d by Trump Administration
- 05/17/2017 The Guardian: Pesticide that Trump’s EPA refused to ban blamed for sickening farm workers
- 05/17/2017 El Ticolote: Pesticide OK’d by Trump admin endangers farmworkers
- 05/17/2017 The Guardian (England): Pesticide that Trump’s EPA refused to ban blamed for sickening farm workers
- 05/17/2017 New York Daily News: Trump’s EPA refuses to ban pesticide, sickens Calif. farmers
- 05/17/2017 Wisconsin State Farmer: Trump mass deportation policy destabilizing workers, farms
- 05/17/2017 Grist: A week after 50 farmworkers were sickened by pesticides, the EPA punts on protecting them
- 05/16/2017 Washington Post: EPA asked the public which regulations to gut — and got an earful about leaving them alone
- 05/16/2017 Southwest Farm Press: EPA puts the brakes on CPA worker protection rule; move draws pro and con responses
- 05/16/2017 Digital Journal: EPA OK’s nasty pesticide – Now 12 farmworkers have been poisoned
- 05/15/2017 Mother Jones: Trump’s EPA greenlights a nasty chemical. A month later, it poisons a bunch of farmworkers
- 05/15/2017 NY Times: A Strong Case Against a Pesticide Does Not Faze E.P.A. Under Trump
- 05/15/2017 Raw Story: Farmworkers get sick after Trump’s EPA reverses Obama and approves poison that damages kids’ brains
- 05/15/2017 Inverse: The Scary Effects of Chlorpyrifos, a Chemical Approved by the EPA
- 05/15/2017 New York Times: A Strong Case Against a Pesticide Does Not Faze E.P.A. Under Trump
- 05/13/2017 ThinkProgress: Trump administration rejects ban on harmful insecticide, dozens of farmworkers get sick
- 05/12/2017 UFW response to EPA delaying protections for workers applying most toxic pesticides
- 05/11/2017 Colorado Springs Gazette: EPA slams brakes on Obama’s new pesticide rules
- 05/11/2017 San Francisco Chronicle: Farmworkers encounter pesticide dangers
- 05/11/2017 Courthouse News Service: Trump’s Ties to Dow Chemical Prompt FOIA Suit
- 05/11/2017 PAN: The real “burden” of pesticide rules
- 05/10/2017 CNN Politics: Pruitt removes scientists from key EPA board
- 05/08/2017 Civil Eats: Trump Executive Order Promises to Slash Farm Regulations