pesticide

Central Coast farmworkers and labor advocates are calling for new regulations governing the use of a Cancer-causing pesticide.

After a survey conducted by UC Merced revealed a widespread mishandling of pesticides across the state, the US Environmental Protection Agency has now closed an enforcement case involving two Monterey County farms.

Farmworkers are exposed to pesticides — it's a risk that's part of the job, according to one farmworker in this episode, in which you’ll hear about the risks, the regulations, and the agencies trying to offer solutions to limit exposure and facilitate reporting incidents.

It’s a warm day in Santa Maria, as Santiago Fanvian — who’s called Santa Maria home for the last 17 years — is at a strip mall with his two sons, both of…

The use of a dangerous pesticide will soon be phased out in California. The California Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday the Department…

In a decision that surprised many, a federal court released a decision Thursday ordering the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to effectively ban…

A group of nine scientists on California's Scientific Review Panel agreed that a pesticide used on more than 60 crops, grown in the Salinas Valley and…

An investigation continues this week into a suspected June 22 insecticide poisoning of 18 farmworkers in Salinas.The Monterey County Agricultural…

This week the state released revisions to its rules for pesticide use near schools, and the revisions are not what many residents in the Salinas Valley…