“Despite knowing the ongoing grave harms caused by coated seeds, EPA has still unlawfully refused to close the loophole allowing them to escape any regulation,” said Amy van Saun, senior attorney at Center for Food Safety and counsel in the case.
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The toxic drift from the super-toxic dicamba continues to harm millions of farmland acres, wild places and endangered species.
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Another incredibly disturbing move by the EPA to prioritize corporate profits over human and environmental health.
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Representing a broad coaltion, the Center for Food Safety filed an appeal against the USDA’s misleading “bioengineered” terminology and for allowing the majority of GMOs to avoid labeling.
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Members of the California legislature are demanding a comprehensive review of the GE-mosquitos’ potential impacts on public health and the environment — before they get approved for release.
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The lawsuit claims that the EPA does not review actual pesticide formulations when assessing pesticide risks.
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The California Supreme Court delivered a major blow to agribusiness and pesticide industry groups, ruling that that insects and other invertebrates can be protected under the state’s Endangered Species Act.
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Center for Food Safety’s Bill Freese gives his take on what this all means.
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“This should be a warning to the industrial food sector that avoiding clear on-packaging labeling by using QR codes alone will not pass legal scrutiny,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety.
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Marking a big win for organic advocates and consumers, the USDA has committed to reinstate the organic animal welfare standards, which had been gutted by the Trump administration.
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The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments challenging a district court ruling that authorized the USDA to continue certifying soil-less hydroponic operations as organic under the organic label.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has denied requests by conservationists and members of Congress to phase out the use of agricultural pesticides on national wildlife refuges.
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In a historic victory for farmworkers and the environment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned the EPA’s decision that the toxic pesticide glyphosate poses no cancer risks, sending the agency back to redo its environmental analysis.
Read Article In a major victory for health and environmental groups, a California court has ruled that a sweeping state pesticide spraying program is unlawful.
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Studies show that these chemicals can leach into food and drinks, causing infertility, birth defects and harm to brain development.
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In an incredibly reckless decision, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services approved the extension of Oxitec’s two-year field trial, which includes releasing several billion more genetically-engineered mosquitoes into the Florida Keys — one of Florida’s most ecologically sensitive areas.
Read Article More than 6,000 stakeholder comments were delivered to the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Department of Pesticide Regulation, urging the agency to halt the proposed release of genetically-engineered mosquitoes.
Read Article This completely unnecessary technology is set to be unleashed on yet another state. Tragic.
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Center for Food Safety filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FDA for unlawfully withholding records regarding the FDA’s environmental assessment of genetically-engineered salmon and a planned Ohio-based production facility.
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Even though dicamba has drifted rampantly to cause unprecedented levels of damage to neighbors’ crops and wild plants over the past five years, the EPA will not take appropriate action to stop this.
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has reintroduced legislation to protect children and farmworkers by banning dangerous pesticides like paraquat, neonicotinoids and organophosphates.
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The legal fight against the USDA continues, this time in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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In a historic victory for farmers, the environment and public health, the EPA announced that it will be revoking all tolerances of chlorpyrifos, effectively banning all food uses of the toxic, brain-damaging pesticide in the U.S.
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