The Center for Food Safety and Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration for approving the use of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides and pesticide-intensive genetically engineered crops on national wildlife refuges.
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Farmers and conservationists have filed a lawsuit against the EPA and Monsanto, challenging the approval of Monsanto’s crop-damaging dicamba pesticide.
Defying the scientific consensus about the harm that chlorpyrifos causes to children, the Trump administration’s EPA announced its decision to allow it to remain on the market.
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An upcoming vote of the California Fish and Game Commission could set in motion the listing of four species of native bumble bees as endangered, sealing their fate for survival.
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A jury in California has awarded a couple $2 billion for Monsanto’s Roundup causing them cancer, the third legal victory of its kind.
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Organic farmers and animal welfare advocates have won access to government documents — which have been kept hidden up until now — in their lawsuit against the USDA.
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30 environmental and farm advocacy groups have urged the EPA to deny Monsanto’s request to increase the spraying of dicamba.
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As a result of the Center for Food Safety’s lawsuit against the EPA’s approval of dozens of neonic pesticides, these bee-killing pesticides will be off the market next year.
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Over the past two years, dicamba has been widely sprayed on Monsanto’s GMO soybeans and cotton, causing damage unprecedented in the history of modern agriculture.
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The USDA has been allowing hydroponics in organic — a complete violation of the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990. This morning, Center for Food Safety filed a legal petition with the USDA to stop this from happening. We will be covering this development in much more detail in next week’s Organic Insider.
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In a victory for free speech and animal protection, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa struck down the Iowa Ag-Gag law, holding that the ban on undercover investigations at factory farms and slaughterhouses violates the First Amendment.
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Despite the fact that agronomists reported over one million acres of dicamba-injured soybeans in 14 states, in addition to many reports of dicamba damage to trees and gardens, the EPA just re-approved this Monsanto pesticide for another two years.
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The Center for Food Safety has filed a motion for summary judgment on its federal lawsuit against the USDA for failing to issue the GMO food disclosure law by the mandatory deadline of July 29, 2018.
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Conservation groups just filed a notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for suddenly reversing a 2014 decision prohibiting bee-killing, neonicotinoid pesticides and genetically-modified crops on national wildlife refuges.
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Hawaii became the first state in the U.S. to ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos, a highly toxic neurotoxin that causes significant damage to brain development in children.
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Data just released shows that the monarch butterfly count fell by nearly one-third from last year’s count, indicating ongoing risk of extinction for America’s most well-known butterfly. This is largely due to the widespread planting of GE-crops.
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A federal lawsuit has been filed against the EPA and Monsanto over the approval of Monsanto’s XtendiMax weedkiller, which puts hundreds of endangered species at risk.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded that the EPA unlawfully approved a pesticide made with nanosilver particles by failing to show how it was in the public’s interest. An important victory.
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The Center for Food Safety is launching a very important initiative – a peer-to-peer online network for sharing seeds. With 10 corporations controlling 73% of the world’s seed supply, it is imperative that we have independent options such as this one.
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Farmer and environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the EPA for approving XtendiMax, also known as Dicamba. Dicamba is already linked to increased rates of cancer and birth defects, and has caused outrage across the country even among non-organic farmers.
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Center for Food Safety and other non-profit groups sue the FDA over the fast-tracked and irresponsible approval of GMO mosquitos in Florida.
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Given that the beekeepers lost an estimated 44% of their colonies last year, it is imperative that the EPA bans the pesticides that are killing them.
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