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March 3rd, 2020
Groups Notify Yakima Valley Factory Dairy of Intent to Sue for Endangering Public Health
Groups Notify Yakima Valley Factory Dairy of Intent to Sue for Endangering Public Health
  YAKIMA, WA: Today, Center for Food Safety, Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE), and Friends of Toppenish Creek notified View Point Dairy, owned by Bill DeRuyter, in the Y
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March 3rd, 2020
Farmers and Nonprofits Sue Trump's USDA over Organic Soil-less Loophole
Farmers and Nonprofits Sue Trump's USDA over Organic Soil-less Loophole
  SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS), along with a coalition of organic farms and stakeholders, filed a lawsuit challenging the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's)
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March 2nd, 2020
New Scorecard Shows Hemp CBD Producers are Increasing Transparency and Moving Toward Organic Ingredients and Certification
New Scorecard Shows Hemp CBD Producers are Increasing Transparency and Moving Toward Organic Ingredients and Certification
  March 2, 2020 (San Francisco, CA) An updated "Hemp CBD Scorecard" from the national nonprofit watchdog Center for Food Safety (CFS) reveals that nearly all the companies evaluated are becoming more
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February 25th, 2020
Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, and Over 70 Groups Advocate for Passage of Bill That Will Reduce Threat of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
Senator Brian Kavanagh, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, and Over 70 Groups Advocate for Passage of Bill That Will Reduce Threat of Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
 Albany, NY — Senator Brian Kavanagh and Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal joined NYPIRG, Consumer Reports, Center for Food Safety, and over 70 national and state environmental, health, and consumer organ
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February 12th, 2020
Groups Sue Farm Service Agency for Concealing Records on Funding of Industrial Animal Ag
Groups Sue Farm Service Agency for Concealing Records on Funding of Industrial Animal Ag
  Washington D.C.—Today, a group of advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit against the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to stop its systematic delay and over-redaction of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) re
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February 11th, 2020
Center for Food Safety Lawsuit Requires FDA to Establish Laboratory Accreditation Program by New Deadline
Center for Food Safety Lawsuit Requires FDA to Establish Laboratory Accreditation Program by New Deadline
Center for Food Safety Lawsuit Requires FDA to Establish Laboratory Accreditation Program by New Deadline Program intended to help FDA rapidly detect and respond to foodborne illness outbreaks Washing
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February 11th, 2020
Salmon Advocates Challenge Approval of Washington Net Pen Aquaculture
Salmon Advocates Challenge Approval of Washington Net Pen Aquaculture
Photo: Steve Ringman, Seattle Times   February 11, 2020 — Conservation and environmental groups filed a lawsuit today challenging a January decision by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (
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February 11th, 2020
Broad Coalition Releases Letter Demanding 'No' Vote on Weak CAFO Bill in Oregon
Broad Coalition Releases Letter Demanding 'No' Vote on Weak CAFO Bill in Oregon
  Salem, OR—The Stand Up to Factory Farms coalition has submitted written testimony in a letter to the Oregon Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee in opposition to Senate Bill 1513 which
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February 6th, 2020
Center for Food Safety's Statement on Corteva's Decision to Terminate the Production of Chlorpyrifos
Center for Food Safety's Statement on Corteva's Decision to Terminate the Production of Chlorpyrifos
Photo: Corteva Agriscience Website The agrichemical company Corteva Inc announced today it will be ending the production of chlorpyrifos by the end of the year due to declining sales. Corteva, a pesti
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January 30th, 2020
Siding with Monsanto/Bayer, Trump EPA Once Again Greenlights Roundup
Siding with Monsanto/Bayer, Trump EPA Once Again Greenlights Roundup
Washington, D.C.—The Trump Administration's Environmental Protection Agency today announced an interim decision on its regulatory review of glyphosate, best known as the active ingredient in Monsanto'
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January 28th, 2020
Pollinator Petitioners ask Court for Permission to Join Lawsuit to Defend Fish and Game Commission Decision to Protect Four Native Bee Species Under the California Endangered Species Act
Pollinator Petitioners ask Court for Permission to Join Lawsuit to Defend Fish and Game Commission Decision to Protect Four Native Bee Species Under the California Endangered Species Act
  SACRAMENTO, CA—Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Food Safety ("Pollinator Petitioners") filed a motion to intervene in litigation over the Califo
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January 22nd, 2020
Court Rules Kansas Ag-Gag Law Unconstitutional
Court Rules Kansas Ag-Gag Law Unconstitutional
  TOPEKA, Kan. - Today the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas struck down nearly all of Kansas's "Ag-Gag" law for violating the First Amendment. The law, which gagged free speech by bannin
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January 16th, 2020
Groups Petition EPA to Take Emergency Action On Chronic Groundwater Pollution in Rural Oregon
Groups Petition EPA to Take Emergency Action On Chronic Groundwater Pollution in Rural Oregon
Portland, OR—Moments ago, a coalition of public interest groups filed a petition under the Safe Drinking Water Act requesting the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) take emergency action to
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January 13th, 2020
New Consumer Lawsuit Challenges USDA's Dirty and Dangerous New Swine Inspection System
New Consumer Lawsuit Challenges USDA's Dirty and Dangerous New Swine Inspection System
Photo credit: Food and Water Watch   Washington D.C.—Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS), Food & Water Watch (FWW), and two supporting members filed an action against the U.S. Department of Agricultur
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January 10th, 2020
Center for Food Safety's Statement on Governor Newsom's Proposed Budget
Center for Food Safety's Statement on Governor Newsom's Proposed Budget
Center for Food Safety's West Coast Director Rebecca Spector issued the following statement in response to Governor Newsom's 2020-2021 budget proposal which was released today: "CFS applauds Governor
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January 6th, 2020
Groups Poised to Sue Another Yakima Valley Factory Dairy for Endangering Public Health
Groups Poised to Sue Another Yakima Valley Factory Dairy for Endangering Public Health
Photo: Illustrative/Adobe Stock   YAKIMA, WA—Today, Community Association of Restoration of the Environment (CARE), Friends of Toppenish Creek, and Center for Food Safety warned Majestic Dairy in Yaki
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