AB99 Quietly Blocked by the Senate
Assembly Bill that would have curtailed Caltrans' pesticides use "quietly killed last week without explanation", spurring allegations of...
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Healthy Highways Coalition
Megan Kaun
- Jul 7
- 2 min
Action Alert: Call into the Senate Environmental Quality Hearing, July 12th, 9:00am**
Last chance call in to voice your support for AB99 Assembly Bill 99 (Connolly) would limit Caltrans' pesticide use and require advanced...
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Megan Kaun
- Jun 26
- 2 min
AB99 is in the Senate
Here's how to call in to voice your support (tomorrow, Tuesday June 27th @ 4pm*) AB99 (Connolly) would limit Caltrans' pesticide use and...
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Megan Kaun
- Jun 21
- 3 min
Words from Rachael Carson
"When taxpayers understand that the bill for spraying the town roads should come due only once a generation instead of once a year, they...
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Megan Kaun
- Jun 16
- 1 min
Press Conference highlights Caltrans' misuse of pesticides
AB99 "right policy" to help Caltrans move toward a safer and more responsible approach to vegetation management. Assembly Member Damon...
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Megan Kaun
- May 22
- 2 min
The True Costs of Highway Spraying
...and the true $$ savings of pesticide-free highways Pesticides, especially those applied to highways using spray trucks impact us all....
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Megan Kaun
- May 22
- 4 min
AB99 (Connolly) Passes State Assembly, Heading to Senate!
"I want to thank you as well for authoring this bill...we certainly don't want to be risking people's public health, we don't want...
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Megan Kaun
- May 6
- 2 min
Caltrans' Chemical Vegetation Management Contributes to Road Hazards
Sinkholes and mudslides linked to roadside pesticide use This has been a water year to remember in California. We have been hit with...
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Megan Kaun
- May 6
- 3 min
Rachael Carson on Roadsides
"There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony..." We honor one of our guiding lights this...
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Megan Kaun
- Mar 29
- 4 min
AB99 (Connolly) ESTM Hearing - Success!
Assembly Member Damon Connolly's Caltrans Integrated Pest Management (IPM) bill (AB99) made it through the Environmental Safety and Toxic...
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Megan Kaun
- Feb 6
- 2 min
Experts on pesticide-free highways discuss AB-99
The EcoNews podcast recently interviewed three technical and policy experts on pesticide-free highways and the new California Assembly...
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Megan Kaun
- Feb 5
- 3 min
Bringing Flower Power Back to California
Flowers protect roads better than pesticides, Florida DOT realizes$500M in annual benefits Roadsides are a natural place for native...
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Megan Kaun
- Feb 4
- 2 min
AB-99: Healthy Highways for California
California Assembly Bill 99 (AB-99) provides the ability for local communities to reduce or eliminate pesticide use on state highways. ...
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