Calif. Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid and Toiling in Toxic Fields
"State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found."
Source: Capital & Main, 11/21/2025
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"Calif. Farms Applied Millions Of Pounds Of Pfas To Key Crops, Study Finds"
"California farms applied an average of 2.5m lb of Pfas “forever chemicals” per year on cropland from 2018 to 2023, or a total of about 15m lb, a new review of state records shows."
Source: Guardian, 11/20/2025
"EPA Proposes Approving Fifth ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide"
"In line with its plan to continue pesticide approvals despite the government shutdown, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced this week that it will register a new weedkiller for use in corn, soybean, wheat, and canola fields."
Source: Civil Eats, 11/07/2025
"WATCH: Parkinson’s And Pesticides – Inside The Fight Over Paraquat"
"Mounting scientific evidence links the pesticide paraquat to Parkinson’s disease, a debilitating and deadly brain disease on the rise in the US. Syngenta, the longtime international maker of the weed-killing chemical, knew of this link decades ago but spent the intervening years questioning and undermining research, internal corporate records obtained by The New Lede show. Now the company is facing thousands of lawsuits brought by people blaming the weed killer for causing Parkinson’s disease."
Source: The New Lede, 11/06/2025
"Traces of Old Farm Chemicals Contaminate Water Across the U.S."
"Even though it delivers airtight data and analysis essential for understanding and managing the risks industrial societies pose to water, land, and health, the U.S. Geological Survey is a federal science agency that rarely attracts public notice."
Source: Circle of Blue, 11/03/2025
"Trump Administration Dismisses Risks of Atrazine, a Farm Herbicide"
"Experts say its continued use will likely harm hundreds of endangered species, rendering some extinct."
Source: Civil Eats, 10/30/2025
"How Big Agriculture Got Its Way In The Latest MAHA Report"
"Alarmed by the first MAHA commission report, the agriculture industry mobilized to shape the next installment. Those efforts seemingly paid off."
Source: Washington Post, 10/07/2025
"Calif. Sanctions Stark Disparities in Pesticide Exposure During Pregnancy"
"If you’re young, pregnant and Latina, chances are you live near agricultural fields sprayed with higher levels of brain-damaging organophosphate pesticides."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/03/2025
"Pesticides in Your Produce? Probably."
"If you eat a daily serving of fruits and vegetables, critical components of a healthy diet, you’re likely ingesting a hefty dose of pesticides too, new peer-reviewed research shows."
Source: Inside Climate News, 09/25/2025
"In Washington, A Battle Builds Over A Right To Sue Pesticide Makers"
"It’s been seven years since Germany’s Bayer bought US agrochemical giant Monsanto, inheriting not only the company’s vast portfolio of seeds and pesticide products, but also more than 100,000 lawsuits alleging Monsanto’s popular Roundup herbicide causes cancer. Bayer, which has so far paid out billions of dollars in settlements and jury verdicts to cancer victims, has been working – so far in vain – to put an end to the litigation and to block any future such cases."
Source: The New Lede, 09/25/2025
