Dear NRDC Supporter,

For decades, our vegetables and fruits have been sprayed with the toxic chemical chlorpyrifos — a little-known but widely used pesticide that poses significant risks to pregnant women and children.

But now, after 30+ years of pressure from NRDC and other public health, farmworker, and community advocacy groups, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced they will BAN chlorpyrifos in food production by early next year — a huge win for farmworkers, families, and science! Learn more at NRDC.org.

Putting an end to chlorpyrifos was a hard-won fight. "We had to have political muscle, we had to have legal tools, and we had to have scientific expertise," says Erik D. Olson, senior strategic director of health and food at NRDC. "If any of the three of those were missing, we would have lost."

And this win would not have been possible without committed, passionate environmental advocates like you. In the last two years alone, nearly 36,000 NRDC supporters took action to demand a ban on chlorpyrifos — an outcry that our country's leaders could no longer ignore.

With other dangerous pesticides still on the market, our fight to protect farmworkers, families, ecosystems, and our food supply is far from over. But this victory is a major step forward towards the safer, healthier food system we all deserve.

- NRDC