Karen Cameron remembers well the day that restrictions were finally placed on chlorpyrifos, a widely-used pesticide. Chlorpyrifos, a type of organophosphate – commonly referred to as an OP – had been linked to neurodevelopmental issues like autism, ADHD and decreased IQ.

But it wasn’t the details of the new regulation itself that Cameron remembers so clearly about that day – it was a conversation she had with Dolores Huerta, the iconic farmworker advocate, while celebrating with fellow activists.

As Cameron recalls it, Huerta gave her a warning: “don’t get too happy, because in my experiences, they always come up with something worse.”

“We’ve found that to be pretty true,” Cameron said.

Though pesticides today aren’t necessarily worse than their predecessors, it’s hard to miss the bas

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