Pesticide Action Network North American Regional Center

(San Francisco, CA) Organization: www.panna.org Project: www.igc.org/cpr	Total Award: $80,000 over 1 year
Californians for Pesticide Reform – Pesticide Drift Campaign	Program Contribution Health Program, $30,000 Environment Program, $30,000 Interprogram Initiatives for Social and Economic Justice, $20,000

To support the Californians for Pesticide Reform — Pesticide Drift Campaign (CPR), a coalition of more than 170 organizations, the goal of which is to redirect current pesticide policy and practice from serving the agrochemical industry toward regulation that protects public and environmental health and promotes sustainable alternative pest management. The project's three-year objective is to protect the health of farm workers, their families, fence-line communities and the general public by eliminating at least two of the highly toxic airborne pesticides used in the state and by restricting the use of at least three more. CPR will accomplish this objective by engaging health and environmental advocates, scientists, lawyers, and other members of the CPR coalition in a public education and organizing campaign aimed at two things: changing the frame within which pesticides are viewed from one focused on the relative safety and economic benefits of pesticides to one focused on the negative health and environmental consequences of their use; and holding public agencies and those who use pesticides accountable for the health impacts of drifting airborne pesticides which contribute significantly to pollution throughout the state and across the country.

This grant also satisfies:

Environment Program: Objective II, Strategy 1
Interprogram Initiatives for Social and Economic Justice: Objective I & II