As part of Sierra Club California’s support of a moratorium on the aerial spraying of the Light Brown Apple Moth until the chemical’s health effects are known, we are proud to report the successes of several bills within the California Legislature.
If all goes well, pesticide spraying WILL NOT occur until we know just how harmful the pesticide is to people – and to our air, water and livelihoods.
Assembly Bills 2760, 2763, and 2765 all passed the California Assembly within the past weeks.
AB 2760 (Leno) triumphed in the Assembly and will head to the Senate.
This measure responds directly to the planned central coast spraying of a manmade pheromone containing synthetic chemicals and nanoparticles.
If all goes well, pesticide spraying WILL NOT occur until we know just how harmful the pesticide is to people – and to our air, water and livelihoods.
Assembly Bills 2760, 2763, and 2765 all passed the California Assembly within the past weeks.
AB 2760 (Leno) triumphed in the Assembly and will head to the Senate.
This measure responds directly to the planned central coast spraying of a manmade pheromone containing synthetic chemicals and nanoparticles.
Although it doesn’t take effect until 2009, AB 2760 would require the completion of an environmental impact report before the aerial spraying of pesticides could commence. This report would assess the pesticide’s impact on our people and environment. The state never completed a report it initially began in 2007.
AB 2763 (Laird) and AB 2765 (Huffman) also recently swept through the California Assembly.
Assemblymember Laird’s bill would require the state to plan, well in advance, a method of control for invasive pest species that threaten our environment and economy.
Huffman’s bill goes further, requiring full disclosure of all pesticide ingredients, examination of alternatives to aerial spraying and a public hearing to consider all alternatives before eradication projects in urban areas could begin.
Even Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has acquiesced to the public outrage regarding the urban pesticide spraying.
On April 24, he announced the state will postpone aerial pesticide application until acute testing of the pesticide’s potential to harm eyes, inhalation, respiratory systems and other human systems, known as the “six-pack” toxicology test, is completed.
-- Compiled by Collin Fisher, Sierra Club California Researcher
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