Our campaigns

Achieving full-time, “no-spray” buffer zones of at least one mile around schools.
  • We have succeeded in getting the state to commit to quarter-mile buffer zones around public schools and day cares in which the most drift prone pesticides cannot be applied from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday through Friday.
Implementing community-wide notification systems to warn residents of pesticide applications before they occur.
  • Monterey Pilot Notification Project
Phasing out the most health-harming chemicals from use in schools and in surrounding agriculture.
  • Chlorpyrifos
  • Roundup (Glyphosate)

Our outreach

Christie Turano Celebrating Chavez While Mourning EPA Reversal on Chlorpyrifos Ban March 28, 2018

Yanely Martinez: Allowing Chlorpyrifos Use in Greenfield is Environmental Racism January 22, 2017

Carole Erickson: Ruling on pesticide calls attention to threat December 17, 2017

Karen Cameron: Protecting children from being exposed to pesticides November 28, 2017
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Jennifer Khan: DPR needs to do more to protect ag communities November 18, 2017​

Margaret Rosa and Julie Vallens: Keep pesticides away from kids November 4, 2017

Pesticide exposure in Monterey, CAlifornia

Each year, upwards of 21 million farmworkers are exposed to pesticides yearly. Due high levels of agricultural production in Monterey, the farmworkers of California are at high risk of pesticide exposure and drift events. However, it does not stop in the fields; children attending schools near the fields are also frequently plagued with pesticide exposure. Learn about the issue of pesticide exposure with our animated infographic.