Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 20, 2012. A California Superior Court Judge has questioned whether the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR) complied with its legal obligation to consider alternative options before approving use of the toxic fumigant methyl iodide in 2010. Judge Frank Roesch raised the concern in comments from the bench during a January 13 hearing involving a lawsuitfiled by farm worker and environmental organizations against CDPR and the Arysta LifeScience Corporation, which manufactures the…
