Oregon Company Continued To Spray Pesticides On Forests Following State Revoked License

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Garcia and her husband, Reuben, both retired farmworkers, raised their six kids in a house close to Colonia and Roosevelt Streets, in the heart of La Colonia, a low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood in central Oxnard. She said her children, now grown, were exposed on a routine basis to toxic chemical substances, such as the fumigant methyl bromide, sprayed close to their schools. The spraying has continued, and Garcia worries about her grandchildren.

The settlement agreement didn't take into account the chemicals that would spring up to replace methyl bromide. In reality, it focused only on the use of methyl bromide in between 1995 and 2001 — the years leading up to when the case was filed, and later accepted for investigation. The EPA said at the time that it looked at methyl bromide simply because the chemical was especially pointed out in the complaint.

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