Washington D.C.—In a ruling yesterday, a federal court allowed a lawsuit contesting the Trump administration's rollback of food safety rules in swine slaughter plants to proceed. The court denied the
(Seattle, WA) -- Tomorrow, on February 2nd, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will be hearing arguments in Center for Food Safety's (CFS) ongoing lawsuit challenging the Clean Water Act general
(Washington, D.C.) -- Yesterday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a legal brief in its challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) 2019 approval of soy leghemoglobin ("heme"), a color
(Washington, D.C.) The Antibiotics Off The Menu (AOTM) coalition has released a statement calling for the Biden Administration to address the ongoing global threat of antibiotic resistance at the fede
(Washington, D.C.) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the use of a previously banned pesticide, aldicarb, and a medically important antibiotic, streptomycin, to address bacterial c
(San Francisco, Calif.) On Thursday, January 21st, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California will hear arguments in Center for Food Safety's (CFS) ongoing lawsuit challe
(San Francisco, Calif.) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today rejected the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) request to allow farmers to continue using the bee-killing pesticide
SAN FRANCISCO—Four public interest groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rushed re-approval of products containing the dangerous, drift-prone dicamba pes
(San Francisco, Cal.) Yesterday, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed the opening arguments and evidence in its litigation challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) re-approval of gly
Today, a group of organizations sent a formal petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging the agency to revise its outdated standards for lead in food to better protect the public, and e
WASHINGTON—Following yesterday's news that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has now deemed that protection for Monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act is scientifically and legally "war
(San Francisco, Cal.) Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity filed an opposition brief yesterday in their ongoing litigation challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc
(Washington, D.C.) According to Politico and several other news outlets, President-elect Joe Biden is strongly considering picking former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to return as head of the U.S
(December 7, 2020; Washington, D.C.) Last Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed interim decision on the toxic, brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos, effectively c
November 23, 2020—Cooke Aquaculture, the company responsible for the 2017 release of over 250,000 nonnative Atlantic salmon into Washington's Puget Sound, will face a new challenge to their proposal t
(November 20, 2020; Sacramento, Calif.) This week, in a blow to imperiled bee and insect populations, the Sacramento County Superior Court issued a ruling in Almond Alliance v. California Fish and Gam