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2007/08 Progress Report

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This Progress Report summarizes DPR’s major recent accomplishments and highlights future initiatives. For your convenience, it may be read or downloaded as a single PDF file or by individual sections.

  • 2007/08 Progress Report (entire report, PDF, 1 MB)
  • Cover, Director’s letter PDF, 257 kb)
  • About DPR (PDF, 103 kb)
  • Prevention (PDF, 329 kb)
    • Bring Home the Green
    • Advancing School IPM
    • Rewarding Innovators
    • Training for prevention
    • Urban Pest Management Working Group
    • Innovation in ag
    • Protecting endangered species
  • Enforcement (PDF, 291 kb)
    • Strengthening enforcement
    • Gaining compliance with pesticide laws
    • The CAC connection: 1-87PestLine
    • Helping counties improve enforcement
    • Making policies clearer
    • Cal/EPA Enforcement Initiative
    • County Agricultural Commissioner profile
    • Promoting safe products and an equitable marketplace
    • Audits boost mill payments
    • Getting better at what we do
  • Health (PDF, 240 kb)
    • Assessing the health risk of pesticides
    • Studying pesticide exposure
    • Preventing illnesses
    • Improving pesticide illness reporting
    • Better response to odor complaints
    • Working with workers on pesticide safety
    • Shift toward lower-risk pesticides
  • Air (PDF, 221 kb)
    • Air Quality Initiative
    • Reformulating high-emission products
    • Regulations to reduce fumigant emissions
    • Strategic partnerships with industry
    • Cleaner technologies
    • What is a VOC?
    • Reducing air toxins
    • Added controls for MITC
    • Community air monitoring
  • Water (PDF, 127 kb)
    • Pyrethroid reevaluation
    • What is reevaluation?
    • Update: diazinon and chlorpyrifos
    • New dormant spray rules
    • Copper contamination in boat harbors
    • Preventing ground water contamination
  • Transparency (PDF, 178 kb)
    • Environmental justice pilot project
    • Public participation strengthens project
    • Sharing pest management successes
    • Sharing what we do
    • Reforming registration
  • Balance sheet (PDF, 233 kb)
    • Pesticide regulatory program funding
    • Accounting for costs, achieving our goals

For our previous reports, see Archived Progress Reports.