Californians stage rally demanding protections from harmful crop chemicals, including one-mile buffer zones around schools and daycares

A group of residents from California’s most heavily farmed regions, has staged a rally in Sacramento, the state capital, demanding protection for children from exposure to dangerous crop chemicals.’
After a morning rally in front of the headquarters of CalEPA and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) on July 12, the 150 community members delivered a petition with more than 27,000 signatures, and a letter signed by more than 100 organizations, calling for the adoption of “long-awaited new protections” for children at schools near agricultural operations.
The community members, who hailed mostly from the extensively farmed San Joaquin Valley and Central Coast regions, demanded the DPR’s establishment of “full-time one-mile buffer zones around all public schools, licensed day care facilities, school bus stops and known school routes for the most hazardous agricultural pesticides.”‘
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