In a victory for consumers, advocates, and the environment, Monsanto-Bayer today announced it will end the sales of its glyphosate-based herbicides — including its flagship product, Roundup — in the U.S. residential lawn and garden market in 2023.
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The Office of the Inspector General found that “senior-level” EPA staffers “changed” and “omitted” research-based evidence of the drift risks of the pesticide that has already damaged millions of acres of crops. Surprised?
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Another legal move is made in a bid to get rid of hydroponics in organic.
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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the EPA to ban all food uses of the brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos.
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Something we wrote about last year, this is merely the prelude to up to one billion of these “insects” to be released over the next two years.
Read Article Despite the fact that it is a clear and utter violation of Section 6513 of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, a federal judge has ruled that hydroponics can be allowed in organic.
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The Center for Food Safety’s lawsuit is based on the FDA failing to demand the required safety tests and that its approval was not based on “convincing evidence.”
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The legal case against allowing hydroponics in organic — one of the real injustices in our industry — starts tomorrow with the public oral argument.
Read Article The EPA released a proposed interim decision on the toxic, brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos, effectively continuing its registration in the U.S., despite a proposed ban on the insecticide by the Obama Administration’s EPA in 2015.
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A federal court ruled that the FDA violated the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act when approving GE-salmon.
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In a reprehensible act, the EPA has reapproved the super-toxic chemical atrazine, and the Center for Food Safety has taken legal action to reverse this decision.
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Center for Food Safety’s lawsuit alleges federal “bioengineered food” law improperly prohibits state seed labeling.
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The EPA announced the final interim decision reauthorizing the use of the toxic pesticide atrazine in the majority of U.S. states., a decision that does not provide protections for public health or endangered species.
Read Article Despite the public outcry and scientific dispute over the human health and environment risks, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control Board gave the green light for the release of 750 million GE-mosquitoes over the next two years.
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A lawsuit filed by the Center for Food Safety against the USDA argues that the 2019 GMO labeling regulation will leave the majority of GMO-derived foods unlabeled, discriminate against tens of millions of Americans, prohibit the use of the widely known terms “GMO” and “GE”, and prohibit retailers from providing more information to consumers.
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The day after last week’s Organic Insider story on dicamba, the Center for Food Safety formally asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the EPA in contempt for refusing to abide by a federal court order for suspending use of the pesticide.
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The move by California’s Department of Pesticide Regulation is an unprecedented positive step toward protecting children and adults from pesticide drift in their homes.
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The plan would green-light growing GMOs on dozens of refuges throughout the Southeast.
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Ignoring science to side with Monsanto/Bayer, the EPA has repeatedly failed to assess glyphosate’s impacts on public health and endangered species.
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Center for Food Safety’s lawsuit asserts that the FDA used the wrong legal standard when it reviewed and approved GE-heme to be used in raw Impossible Burgers sold in grocery stores.
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The yearly count of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico shows a decrease of 53% from last year’s count and is well below the threshold at which government scientists predict the migration could collapse.
Read Article Hydroponics is a complete violation of Section 6513 of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, and this growing method cannot be allowed in organic.
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Many more hemp CBD brands have now received “A” scores.
Read Article Ignoring science, the EPA repeatedly fails to assess glyphosate’s impacts on human health and endangered species.
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