Ban Toxic Pesticides

From farms to public hearings, the women of Líderes Campesinas are standing up against the pesticide exposure, COVID-19 risk, and other threats disproportionately impacting their community.

These pollinator-poisoning pesticides threaten to radically alter how we eat.

But the toxic chemical, more commonly known as Roundup, was just found by the administration’s own science advisors to threaten public health.

NRDC advocates and our partners spent decades fighting against a highly toxic pesticide that harms kids, farmworkers, and their families. In August, the EPA finally banned it.

It’s a hard-won milestone in the decades-long battle against the chemical—but the fight for a federal ban wages on.

Organic farming protects our soil, air, water, wildlife, and critically—our farming communities—from toxic pesticides.

While everyone is freaking out about invasive hornets, the largest threats to America’s pollinators remain unchanged.

Despite studies that link chlorpyrifos to learning disabilities in children, the state has decided to keep spraying it on our foods.

Study after study continues to connect bee deaths to neonicotinoid pesticides. With the science piling up, and other countries starting to take critical pollinator-saving action, here’s a quick primer on all things neonics.

Glyphosate, a toxic herbicide, is under attack. But it’s not enough to develop “better” chemical weapons in our war against crop-killing weeds. We need to rethink our entire battlefield strategy.

NRDC is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for greenlighting the use of neonics without first considering their harm to endangered species.

The EPA approved a new pesticide called Enlist Duo—despite its serious risks to people and certain animal species. So NRDC is challenging the EPA’s decision in federal court.

The EPA, however, continues to keep the harmful chemical on the market.

Research shows neonics are highly toxic to wildlife, including key pollinators—and the EPA’s failure to act on that evidence violates the Endangered Species Act. So we’re suing.

Pesticide-treated seeds, like these, pollute water and harm bees—yet they go unregulated in California. NRDC filed a petition to close a state loophole that lets them fall through the cracks.

Shown to be toxic to kids, chlorpyrifos is nevertheless still being sprayed on crops across the country—and making its way into our bodies. So why has the EPA refused to ban it?

These scientific studies add a few more nails to the coffin of evidence that neonics are contributing to bee deaths.

Siblings Joel, Anayeli, and Patricio Moreno see the future of their community and that of the butterflies that migrate annually to the local Cerro Pelón forest as being intimately connected.

The state's Department of Pesticide Regulation and Department of Food and Agriculture must end the use of toxic pesticides and invest in diversified organic and regenerative agriculture.