Talk:Angelita C. et al. v. California Department of Pesticide Regulation

if this isn't notable I don't know what is

I oppose deletion and am working on the article. I have not yet removed the prod template because I am using the convenience links. Elinruby (talk) 01:50, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

so this copy-vio

Didn't write it that text and don't know about it, but this topic is notable enough for an article and I am pulling it out of prod. (See list of sources I have added) I noticed it on a list of over-templated articles.

Can we just delete the copy-vio text in question? I have downloaded the source document, but I don't think I even need it for AfD purposes. I like my sources better, although I may add something from it eventually. Elinruby (talk) 05:07, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

I assume this is from a press released archived somewhere

Completely uncited of course. Left here as breadcrumbs to the details of the voluntary compliance agreement once you strip all the weasel out: in which the EPA recommended stricter air monitoring of potentially harmful gasses, a process to acquire information from registered pesticide companies about where pesticide concentration is the greatest, a process to determine monitoring efforts are effective against long-term pesticide exposure, use of films that act as a barrier towards methyl bromide, setting limits on methyl bromide levels per town, and organizing three events per year as a means of outreach with the Latino community.

outline

Angelita C.

• Complaint to EPA because of Supreme Court ruling
• Pesticides used in fields impact entire community
  • However schoolchildren are required to attend school, and children are medically more vulnerable
• Appeal (Garcia v. McCarthy) dismissed

Angelita C. setting is an agricultural community

• Employers often large corporations not family farms
• Workers usually indigenous Oaxacans, overwhelmingly undocumented and illiterate in both English and Spanish
  • History of seasonal migration to the area from Mexico
  • Mexican maize farmers displaced by NAFTA?
  • Employment is at will
  • Sanitation is not provided for hand-washing or anything else (see outbreaks of hepatitis)
  • Complaints or attempts to unionize lead to unemployment
  • Brutal production quotas at harvest
  • Minimum wage and wage theft issues endemic
  • Life expectancy for field workers is 49
  • Insurance not usually available, so access to medical care is minimal

Pesticides

• methyl bromide -- fell under Montreal Protocol but was still in use under critical use exemptions
• methyl iodide -- proposed replacement withdrawn from market
• chloropicrin -- alternate, requires protective gear
• 1,3-dichloropropene -- alternate

EPA

• dueling legislative mandates
• pervasive influence of industry
• multiple administrators have had a history of ignoring the science
• failure to meet deadline for complaints
• much concern about deadlines for approvals; managers evaluated on number of approvals

Agriculture in California

• Part of the origin story
• History of dispossessing minorities
• land owned by whites, work done by non-whites
• highly segmented climate zones
• UC Davis
• Strawberry Commission