California Pesticide Agency Hopelessly Captured by Industry, Critics Charge

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State regulators face calls to better protect low-income, Spanish-speaking immigrants from pesticide exposure in agricultural communities. By Liza Gross SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Farmworkers, their loved ones and advocates lined up out the door of a California state legislative hearing room this week to urge elected officials to hold pesticide regulators accountable for failing to protect their communities […]

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