KGET: Newsom administration moves to ban chlorpyrifos pesticide, allocates $5.7 million for alternatives
California Governor Gavin Newsom released his revised $213 billion budget Thursday. His administration announced California will ban chlorpyrifos, a pesticide used to help grow 50 different types of crops in our state, adding the governor’s budget will allocate $5.7 million towards an alternative pesticide.
Farmers have used the pesticide since 1965 to keep a wide array of insects off of crops, but recent studies suggest the pesticide could be harmful to brain development of children, even before they are born.