Up to 144,000 Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Released in Florida Keys

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April 26th, 2021

MARATHON, Fla. — The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) and Oxitec, a British biotech company, will begin the first-ever U.S. release of genetically engineered (GE) Aedes aegypti mosquitoe

April 22nd, 2021

Florida Halts Use of Controversial Pesticide on Citrus Crops

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In a victory for farm workers, public health, and the environment, yesterday the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services denied AgLogic Chemical LLC's state pestici

April 21st, 2021

U.S. and Canadian Groups Call for Ban on Face Masks Containing Toxic Nanomaterials

MINNEAPOLIS—Today, leading environmental and human health advocacy groups from the United States and Canada provided detailed evidence about face masks containing potentially toxic nanoscale materials

April 16th, 2021

New Study: Undisclosed Inert Ingredients in Some Popular Roundup Products Found to Be Highly Toxic to Bumblebees

PORTLAND, Ore.— Popular herbicide products widely available at hardware and garden stores contain undisclosed "inert" ingredients that can kill bumblebees, according to a new study published in the Jo

April 13th, 2021

Public Oral Argument in Lawsuit Challenging FDA Approval of Genetically Engineered Ingredient That Makes Impossible Burger 'Bleed'

SEATTLE—Tomorrow, on Wednesday, April 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments in Center for Food Safety's (CFS) ongoing lawsuit challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Admin

April 12th, 2021

Corteva Drops Plant-Killing Pesticide Dicamba Amid Legal Battles, Drift Concerns

WILMINGTON, Del.—Agrichemical giant Corteva announced last week it was dropping efforts to have the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approve its new choline version of the plant-killing pest

April 7th, 2021

Groups Urge Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals Stay with FDA not USDA

WASHINGTON—This week, thirteen national advocacy groups concerned about public health, environment, and animal welfare urged key federal agencies to maintain regulatory authority over genetically engi

April 6th, 2021

Climate, Environmental Justice Groups Call for Biden EPA to Hold Industrial Dairy and Hog Operations Accountable and to Reject Big Ag Technology

Today, environmental justice, rural community and environmental groups across the U.S. filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, calling for the Biden EPA to regulate industrial

March 22nd, 2021

Court Rules USDA Authorized to Certify Soil-less Hydroponic Operations as Organic

SAN FRANCISCO—On Friday, the United States District Court for the Northern District issued a ruling in Center for Food Safety's (CFS) lawsuit challenging U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) decisi

March 17th, 2021

Call to Restore Ban on Farming Risks in Wildlife Refuges

WASHINGTON—Neither genetically modified (GM) crops nor powerful neonicotinoid insecticides have a place in any National Wildlife Refuge, according to a letter from 19 conservation organizations to t

February 25th, 2021

Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Falls Again

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The yearly count of Monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico, released today (see table below), continues to show a dramatic decline of the imperiled species. Today's count of 2.10

February 19th, 2021

Pilot Swine Slaughter Plants with 'Self-Inspection' Rules Have Almost Twice as Many Violations for Carcass Fecal and Digestive Matter

Washington D.C.—New data released today show that in the years leading up to the Trump administration's approval of new inspection rules for swine slaughter plants, those establishments that piloted t

February 16th, 2021

Opening Brief Filed in Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration's Expansion of Bee-killing Insecticide Sulfoxaflor

SAN FRANCISCO—Yesterday, Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity filed the opening brief in their lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) approval of the

February 11th, 2021

Court of Appeals Backs Environmentalists: Federal Greenlight of Industrial Shellfish Aquaculture Unlawful

(Seattle, WA) -- Today, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Center for Food Safety's (CFS) and Coalition to Protect Puget Sound's (CPPSH) victory in their lawsuits seeking to revoke the C

February 8th, 2021

Lawsuit Launched Over Army Corps' Failure to Protect Endangered Wildlife From Nationwide Permit Program

PORTLAND, Ore.— Center for Food Safety, the Center for Biological Diversity, Waterkeeper Alliance, and allies issued a formal notice today of their intent to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for f

February 8th, 2021

Conservationists and California Fish and Game Commission Pursue Appeal to Ensure Legal Protections for Imperiled Bumble Bees

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Today, Center for Food Safety, Defenders of Wildlife, and the Xerces Society, represented by Stanford Environmental Law Clinic, announced they are appealing a November 2020 decisi

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