A bill led by Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) and Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) would ban chlorpyrifos, neonicotinoids and paraquat.
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A bill led by Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) and Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) would ban chlorpyrifos, neonicotinoids and paraquat.
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The New Jersey senator’s bill will phase out factory farming, otherwise known as concentrated animal feeding operations, by 2040 and imposes stricter environmental standards in the interim.
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A new EPA rule proposal would shrink the areas where farmers must restrict human contact during pesticide applications, a move that exposes many more people to cancer-linked chemicals.
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The incredibly dangerous assault on pollinators continues, this time with the EPA’s allowance of sulfoxaflor, which the agency considers “very highly toxic” to bees.
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China’s long process to approve genetically-modified crops has brought up many trade issues for the U.S.
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Environmentalists are distraught over the nomination of Aurelia Skipwith, calling her “the most unqualified” director in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s history.
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The incredibly respected organic farmer Francis Thicke, who just ended his 5-year term on the National Organic Standards Board, gives his take on the real issues that the industry faces.
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U.S. Representatives Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Dan Newhouse (R-WA) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) call for greater organic research funding in order to meet the industry’s skyrocketing demand.
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Leading Democrats in Washington are not only pushing the USDA for a tough GMO-labeling rule, but they are urging the agency to meet the July 28, 2018 deadline.
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After many months of delays, The White House Office of Management and Budget has signed off on the proposed organic animal welfare standards. While far from perfect, they are certainly an improvement over existing rules. Now, the standards must be published by the USDA in the Federal Register before January 20th in order to go into effect.
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Is anyone at all surprised? A new study conducted by the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University says that it is highly unlikely that consumers will use QR codes to determine if a product contains GMOs.
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With the DARK Act passing, the Organic Consumers Association has already started a boycott of any company using a QR code and 500,000 people have already signed-on.
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Love this guy! Vern Buchanan, a Republican U.S. representative from Florida, has called out President Obama to veto this horrible GMO-labeling, saying it was a “sham” and “meaningless.
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The Senate and the House have received permission from the White House to extend the commenting period for the animal welfare regulations that have recently been proposed by the USDA.
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