Climate Change
California Pesticide Regulators’ Lax Oversight Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges
A “people’s tribunal” urged California’s attorney general to investigate state and county pesticide regulators for severe violations that place disproportionate harm from agricultural chemicals on farmworkers and their families.
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.
California Pesticide Regulators’ Lax Oversight Violates Civil Rights Laws, Coalition Charges