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December 18, 2020
Two complaints filed Wednesday in the Southern District of New York alleged that an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation increases farmworkers’ risk of exposure to pesticides because it allows farmworkers and others to be present where the pesticides are being applied and near the equipment.
One complaint was filed by states, including New York, California, Illinois, Maryland, and Minnesota. The other was filed by farmworker organizations, including Rural & Migrant Ministry, Alianza Nacional De Campesinas, El Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agrícolas, Farmworker Association of Florida, Migrant Clinicians Network, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos Del Noroeste, Rural Coalition, United Farm Workers, and United Farm Workers Foundation.