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

This page was proposed for deletion by MicrobiologyMarcus (talk · contribs) on 27 April 2024.

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if this isn't notable I don't know what is[edit]

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)[reply]

so this copy-vio[edit]

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)[reply]

I assume this is from an press released archived somewhere[edit]

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[edit]

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