Judge Won’t Block Farmers’ Exemption on Spray Warning
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SAN FRANCISCO — A Superior Court judge declined Wednesday to force Gov. Pete Wilson to require that growers warn nearby residents when applying methyl bromide, a widely used pesticide believed to cause birth defects.
The Wilson Administration decided last week to exempt farmers from the warning requirement that was scheduled to take effect Jan. 1 under Proposition 65. Environmentalists took the governor to court, but Judge Raymond Joseph Arata Jr. refused to grant a temporary restraining order and set a hearing for Jan. 14.
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