California Department of Pesticide Regulation

Type: Organization

Name: California Department of Pesticide Regulation

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

State proposing new regulations for berry fumigant

A farm worker carries a box of strawberries at Darensberries Farms in Santa Maria. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation is floating potential new restrictions for the use of chloropicrin. //Photos by Daniel Dreifuss/StaffBrian Bullock/bb ... [Published Adobe Press - May 24 2013]

Entities: Fumigant, California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Zoning, US Environmental Protection Agency

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

United States Geological Survey

National Assessment Shows Geographic Distributions and Trends of Pesticide Use, 1992-2009

For the first time, national maps and trend graphs show the distribution of the agricultural use of 459 pesticides for each year during 1992-2009 for the entire conterminous U.S. The maps and supporting national database of county-level use estimates ... [Published Sensors & Systems - May 17 2013]

Entities: Pesticide, United States Geological Survey, US Department of Agriculture, United States, California Department of Pesticide Regulation

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

State Proposes Regulations for Pesticide Commonly Used in Strawberry Farming

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The California Department of Pesticide Regulation proposed new rules on a widely used chemical in the strawberry industry.Regulations are already in place for the fumigant known as chloropicrin. A farmer I spoke with today says these ... [Published KCOY 12 - May 17 2013]

Entities: Pesticide, Fumigant, Chloropicrin, California Department of Pesticide Regulation

First reported Apr 21 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 1 reports

How farming and communities can cohabitate

Sarah RinglerAs a teacher, I'm naturally concerned about safety issues created by the use of agricultural chemicals near our schools in the Pajaro Valley.Lately, staff at MacQuiddy and Amesti elementary schools have reported fumes that caused eye irritation; ... [Published Santa Cruz Sentinel - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: Agriculture, California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Chemical

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

Larry Wasson appointed CIO of Dept. of Pesticide Regulation

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has named Larry Wasson as the new chief information officer, a spokesperson for the department confirmed.Wasson has worked for eight years with the DPR, which monitors pesticide use, recommends proposals ... [Published Techwire.net - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: Pesticide, CIO, Appointed, California Department of Pesticide Regulation

Quotes

"These nationally complete and consistent, county-level use estimates are vital for USGS water-quality models that estimate pesticide concentrations in streams and rivers. In addition, long-term annual data is essential for interpreting water-quality trends" said Wes Stone, an author of the reports

National Assessment Shows Geographic Distributions and Trends of Pesticide Use, 1992-2009 [Published Sensors & Systems - May 17 2013]

"Larger buffer zones, and static buffer zones to sensitive sites are going to reduce the amount of acreage that is available to be fumigated in general and will impose many hardships on strawberry farmers in Santa Maria" says Coelho

State Proposes Regulations for Pesticide Commonly Used in Strawberry Farming [Published KCOY 12 - May 17 2013]

...state regulators were planning to monitor schools in the Pajaro Valley in response to a 12-year-old civil rights complaint which found that the "California Department of Pesticide Regulation discriminated against Latino students by allowing unhealthy levels of methyl bromide near their schools." There is, in fact, a monitor currently on the grounds of Ohlone Elementary School, one of the three schools cited in the complaint...

How farming and communities can cohabitate [Published Santa Cruz Sentinel - Apr 21 2013]

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