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June 30th, 2021

Washington Appellate Court Rejects State's Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation Permits, Finds State Failed to Protect Water Quality and Account for Climate Change

Olympia, Wash. – Yesterday, as record-setting heat threatened the sustainability of Washington's water resources, a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals unanimously invalidated the Was

June 24th, 2021

Kroger Urged to Eliminate Bee-Toxic Pesticides from Its Food Supply Chain

Cincinnati, OH – On the eve of Kroger's annual shareholder meeting, groups are calling on the grocery giant to commit to eliminating toxic pesticides linked to dramatic pollinator declines from the co

June 17th, 2021

USDA to Reinstate Vital Organic Animal Welfare Protections Gutted by Trump Administration

WASHINGTON—In a victory for organic farmers, advocates, and animal welfare, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that it will be reinstating animal welfare standards on farms prod

June 8th, 2021

Center for Food Safety Endorses New Bill That Would Close FDA's Food Safety Loophole

WASHINGTON—Last Friday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) endorsed the Toxic Free Food Act, new legislation introduced by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) that would overhaul the Food and Drug Administration's

June 3rd, 2021

Petition: FDA Must Stop Allowing Harmful PFAS in our Food

Today, a group of health, environmental, and consumer organizations sent a formal petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban all PFAS (per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances) that ac

May 26th, 2021

Judge Denies Bayer's 'Clearly Unreasonable' Proposal to Settle Future Roundup Cancer Claims

SAN FRANCISCO—Today, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria denied Monsanto/Bayer's proposed settlement that would set up a compensation fund to settle future lawsuits over claims that its Roundup weed k

May 24th, 2021

EPA Watchdog Report: Senior Staffers in Trump EPA Changed, Omitted Science During 2018 Review of Dicamba; Skipped Internal Peer-Review Process

Washington— A scathing report, released today by a federal oversight agency, revealed that high-ranking officials in the Trump Environmental Protection Agency purposely excluded scientific evidence of

May 19th, 2021

Biden EPA Reveals Prior Approval of Monsanto's Roundup Failed to Account for Risks to Monarch Butterflies and Other Endangered Species, Drift Harm to Farmers

SAN FRANCISCO—In a federal court filing yesterday the Biden Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effectively admitted grave errors in EPA's 2020 interim registration of glyphosate, b

May 19th, 2021

Organic Advocates Appeal District Court Decision Authorizing Labeling of Soil-less Hydroponic Operations as Organic

SAN FRANCISCO—Yesterday, Center for Food Safety (CFS), along with a coalition of organic farms, certifier, and organic stakeholder groups, filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, app

May 14th, 2021

Appeals Court Affirms Historic Roundup Cancer Plaintiff Victory Against Monsanto

SAN FRANCISCO—Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in the appeal of Hardeman v. Monsanto, affirming a lower court's decision that resulted in a $80 millio

May 13th, 2021

Center for Food Safety Files Legal Brief in Support of Missouri Peach Farmer Devastated by Dicamba Drift

SAN FRANCISCO—Yesterday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a legal brief in support of Missouri peach farmer Bill Bader, who successfully sued seed and agrichemical giants Monsanto and BASF for deva

May 12th, 2021

Center for Food Safety Sues Army Corps Over Failure to Release Documents Regarding Approval of Industrial Shellfish Operations

SAN FRANCISCO—Yesterday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for unlawfully withholding documents regarding

May 4th, 2021

Center for Food Safety Sues NIH Over Unlawfully Keeping Secret Federal Funding of Research Creating New More Virulent Pandemic Viruses

SAN FRANCISCO–Last week, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency with the Department of Health and Hum

May 3rd, 2021

Appeals Court Ruling Allows Novel Genetically Engineered Soy Leghemoglobin in Impossible Burgers

SAN FRANCISCO—Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision in Center for Food Safety's (CFS) lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of soy le

April 30th, 2021

100-Plus Groups Demand Actions Critical to Protecting Endangered Species, Wildlife Refuges From Toxic Pesticides

WASHINGTON— More than 100 groups sent three letters to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today outlining urgent actions needed to protect the nation's wildlife and their habitats from dangerous pesti

April 29th, 2021

Court Orders EPA to Ban Pesticide Known to Harm Children's Brains

SAN FRANCISCO—The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban all food uses of the brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos or retain only those uses it

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