California AG Filed Lawsuit against Helicopter Company Over Unsafe Pesticide Application Practices

OCTOBER 30, 2020

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit against Alpine Helicopter Service Inc. over aerial pesticide applications that resulted in members of the public being exposed to harmful pesticides. The complaint alleged that, since September 2019, the company “misapplied pesticides on at least three separate occasions, each time in a manner that unlawfully allowed those pesticides to drift, thereby threatening public health, private property, and the environment.” The complaint also emphasized that these three incidents “are only the most recent examples of a pattern of misconduct” dating back to at least 2013.