Litigation
Jul. 29, 2003
Pesticides Threaten Public, Conservation Groups Claim
By Eron Ben-Yehuda Environmentalists warn that the state's use of insecticides to kill a pest that spreads the grapevine-killing Pierce's disease may cause harm to a different kind of species: the people who live and work in the infested areas.
A trio of conservation groups filed a joint lawsuit in June trying to stop the Californi...