The state has officially backed down and the spraying program is cancelled. This victory belongs to every one of the 477 people who refused to let their communities be ignored. Stay vigilant because we have to keep monitoring these agencies to ensure they keep their word.
April 8, 2017
Final supporters
To Governor Jerry Brown, All elected Officials in the State of California, All Agencies in the State of California:
We the people of this great State of California Oppose Senate Bill 382, local control for monitoring and all vector control activities must remain at the local level and NOT on a State level, Oppose the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) program to spray for light brown apple moth or any other insect, Oppose any and all permits issued by the Water and Air Quality Boards to allow for Aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides by exemption and without an environmental impact report and public comment, Oppose Cal Trans using pesticides on our freeway systems for weed control, Oppose permits granted to the California Department of Water Resources, any other municipal or local water agency to spray pesticides and herbicides in or near our drinking water, watershed, streams or lakes, Oppose spraying pesticides near schools, parks, freeways, hospitals, medical buildings and nursing homes, Oppose fracking waste water being applied anywhere near or on agriculture, Oppose the use of rodenticides, pesticides and fertilizers in our food products and agricultural system, Oppose food irradiation.
We support a fertilizer tax for the clean water fund, we support all preemptive laws in the California Agricultural Code being immediately removed from the books, enough special treatment to the chemical industry and frackers. We ask our representatives to take a stand in all offices to protect our health from the overuse of pesticides, herbicides, adulticides, larvicides, rodenticides, currently used or proposed to be used in the future. We support a stronger EPA. We support individuals to have control for mosquito control by the use of common sense measures, we do not need state assistance in this.
For the sake of the health of our CHILDREN, our families, for clean air and water, to not wipe out all the beneficial pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies.
It is imperative that the State of California stops contributing to the high cancer rates in our children and citizens by ceasing the heavy reliance on products that harm and KILL. A product with the CIDE on the end means to kill. It does not discriminate and harms everything.
In the case of mosquitos these pesticides also take out the beneficial insects that would keep mosquito populations in control. The pesticides also harm our immune systems and make it more likely we will be ill. Even in low doses these products are harming our health especially our children, there is a large body of evidence supporting this. Additionally, the sprays have been determined to be ineffective and causes more problems than they solve. STOP USING OUR TAX DOLLARS TO POISON OUR FAMILIES.
Thank you for listening to the people in this great state that you represent. We have all had enough of the constant spraying by every agency and the out of control methods being employed. All IPM guides in the past had pesticides and herbicides as a last result – now it is the first this that is done - ENOUGH. The cancer rates in our children and the loss of the pollinators is a tell tail sign of how fool hearty this out of control approach is.
Reasons to support our health when pesticides, herbicides etc.. are used:
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/EHP358/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/14/health/pesticide-exposure-childhood-cancer/index.html
Opposition to Senate Bill 382
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextCl...
Opposition to the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) program to spray for light brown apple moth
http://www.lbamspray.com/eirdraft/CH%201_%20Introduction.pdf
Opposition to permits to spray our water
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
February 22, 2017
February 21, 2017
The momentum behind this fight is undeniable and it proves that people are fed up with toxic chemicals in our air and water. Post the link to your Facebook timeline immediately and email your state representative right now to demand they pull their support for these spray programs.
Reached 100 supporters
February 20, 2017
February 17, 2017
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need a final push to hit that milestone before the day ends. Post this link to your Facebook page right now and tag your local representatives to show them we are watching. Send this to three friends who live in California and ask them to sign this afternoon.
133 Comments
Please stop the spraying of pesticides in our city. We live near Orange Grove and they do aerial spraying we're very concerned that this is making our our pets and our family sick. JJ Ramirez Orange Grove company that works for on the city of Loma Linda's orange groves need to stop the aerial spraying.
The pesticide preemption was a "gut & amend" bill that should have been ruled illegal in the first place. It's time to stop control over the health of our communities to Sacramento or DC.
I own PuraVidaAquatic and do non-chemical pond and water feature maintenance. Overhead aerial spraying poisons the biological systems that I use to provide non toxic water systems, interferes with the ability to have such systems, and disrupts and is detrimental to natural ecologies. Robert Lloyd
The climatic and environmental conditions are too varied for some sort of monolithic prescription for vector control. We must be allowed to control our own response to vectors.
As one of the 1/3 citizens with autoimmune conditions including multiple chemical sensitivity stop spraying chemicals immediately. My health and ability to live a normal life is impacted. Stop chemically polluting my land, water, air, and body. Thank you
BC people don't want their imported California produce covered in toxic chemicals.
We need more signatures. So frustrating but we will do this
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The state has officially backed down and the spraying program is cancelled. This victory belongs to every one of the 477 people who refused to let their communities be ignored. Stay vigilant because we have to keep monitoring these agencies to ensure they keep their word.
April 8, 2017
Final supporters
To Governor Jerry Brown, All elected Officials in the State of California, All Agencies in the State of California:
We the people of this great State of California Oppose Senate Bill 382, local control for monitoring and all vector control activities must remain at the local level and NOT on a State level, Oppose the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) program to spray for light brown apple moth or any other insect, Oppose any and all permits issued by the Water and Air Quality Boards to allow for Aerial spraying of pesticides and herbicides by exemption and without an environmental impact report and public comment, Oppose Cal Trans using pesticides on our freeway systems for weed control, Oppose permits granted to the California Department of Water Resources, any other municipal or local water agency to spray pesticides and herbicides in or near our drinking water, watershed, streams or lakes, Oppose spraying pesticides near schools, parks, freeways, hospitals, medical buildings and nursing homes, Oppose fracking waste water being applied anywhere near or on agriculture, Oppose the use of rodenticides, pesticides and fertilizers in our food products and agricultural system, Oppose food irradiation.
We support a fertilizer tax for the clean water fund, we support all preemptive laws in the California Agricultural Code being immediately removed from the books, enough special treatment to the chemical industry and frackers. We ask our representatives to take a stand in all offices to protect our health from the overuse of pesticides, herbicides, adulticides, larvicides, rodenticides, currently used or proposed to be used in the future. We support a stronger EPA. We support individuals to have control for mosquito control by the use of common sense measures, we do not need state assistance in this.
For the sake of the health of our CHILDREN, our families, for clean air and water, to not wipe out all the beneficial pollinating insects such as bees and butterflies.
It is imperative that the State of California stops contributing to the high cancer rates in our children and citizens by ceasing the heavy reliance on products that harm and KILL. A product with the CIDE on the end means to kill. It does not discriminate and harms everything.
In the case of mosquitos these pesticides also take out the beneficial insects that would keep mosquito populations in control. The pesticides also harm our immune systems and make it more likely we will be ill. Even in low doses these products are harming our health especially our children, there is a large body of evidence supporting this. Additionally, the sprays have been determined to be ineffective and causes more problems than they solve. STOP USING OUR TAX DOLLARS TO POISON OUR FAMILIES.
Thank you for listening to the people in this great state that you represent. We have all had enough of the constant spraying by every agency and the out of control methods being employed. All IPM guides in the past had pesticides and herbicides as a last result – now it is the first this that is done - ENOUGH. The cancer rates in our children and the loss of the pollinators is a tell tail sign of how fool hearty this out of control approach is.
Reasons to support our health when pesticides, herbicides etc.. are used:
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/EHP358/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/14/health/pesticide-exposure-childhood-cancer/index.html
Opposition to Senate Bill 382
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextCl...
Opposition to the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) program to spray for light brown apple moth
http://www.lbamspray.com/eirdraft/CH%201_%20Introduction.pdf
Opposition to permits to spray our water
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
February 22, 2017
February 21, 2017
The momentum behind this fight is undeniable and it proves that people are fed up with toxic chemicals in our air and water. Post the link to your Facebook timeline immediately and email your state representative right now to demand they pull their support for these spray programs.
Reached 100 supporters
February 20, 2017
February 17, 2017
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need a final push to hit that milestone before the day ends. Post this link to your Facebook page right now and tag your local representatives to show them we are watching. Send this to three friends who live in California and ask them to sign this afternoon.
133 Comments
I live in aliso Viejo w my 1 yr old. It makes me sick how many pesticides are used in parks and around the community. For the health and lives of our most innocent and valuable citizens, I implore you to stop.
Please stop the spraying of pesticides in our city. We live near Orange Grove and they do aerial spraying we're very concerned that this is making our our pets and our family sick. JJ Ramirez Orange Grove company that works for on the city of Loma Linda's orange groves need to stop the aerial spraying.
The pesticide preemption was a "gut & amend" bill that should have been ruled illegal in the first place. It's time to stop control over the health of our communities to Sacramento or DC.
I own PuraVidaAquatic and do non-chemical pond and water feature maintenance. Overhead aerial spraying poisons the biological systems that I use to provide non toxic water systems, interferes with the ability to have such systems, and disrupts and is detrimental to natural ecologies. Robert Lloyd
The climatic and environmental conditions are too varied for some sort of monolithic prescription for vector control. We must be allowed to control our own response to vectors.
As one of the 1/3 citizens with autoimmune conditions including multiple chemical sensitivity stop spraying chemicals immediately. My health and ability to live a normal life is impacted. Stop chemically polluting my land, water, air, and body. Thank you
BC people don't want their imported California produce covered in toxic chemicals.
We need more signatures. So frustrating but we will do this
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I live in aliso Viejo w my 1 yr old. It makes me sick how many pesticides are used in parks and around the community. For the health and lives of our most innocent and valuable citizens, I implore you to stop.