CALIFORNIA

Researchers in Brazil have already sequenced the genome for one strain of this bacterium, and American grape growers are chipping in to fund research on the North American strain. In Hughson, California, America's largest permanent crops nursery, Duarte, has teamed up with Dry Creek Laboratories to develop genetically modified grapevine rootstock as a "solution" to the sharpshooter... In 2005 a proposal was brought before the Oakland City Council, to add yet another exemption to the city's already weak pesticide "ban", rendering it increasingly meaningless. East Bay Pesticide Alert was instrumental in forcing the City of Oakland to comply with the limited laws which protect our environment. We insisted that a proposal such as theirs is subject to CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, until the city attorney admitted that adopting the proposal without conducting an indepth environmental review would put the city at risk or law suits. As this process is currently continuing..

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