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October 2nd, 2023
EPA Refuses to Regulate Risks of Pesticide Formulations
EPA Denies Legal Petition and Continues to Ignore Real-World Dangers of Whole Pesticide Formulations, Focusing on just the "Active" Ingredient
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July 17th, 2023
EPA Withdraws Decision on Toxic Fungicide Difenoconazole
Pressure from Center for Food Safety and Courts Prompts New EPA Review of Impacts
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July 6th, 2023
Congressional Bill Would Curtail State Health and Environmental Protections
"Blatant attempt" to preempt cancer warnings and pesticide limits by states and localities
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June 7th, 2023
EPA Failed to Protect Against Toxic Enlist Herbicides, Lawsuit Alleges
EPA ignored the adverse effects of Enlist on rural communities and the environment in re-approval.
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June 1st, 2023
Groups Sue EPA Over Failure to Regulate Insecticide-Coated Seeds
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May 5th, 2023
EPA Confirms Bee-Killing Neonicotinoid Insecticides Threaten Extinction for More than 200 Endangered Species
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April 13th, 2023
Farmers, Conservationists Ask Court to Strike Down Crop-Damaging Dicamba Pesticide
Toxic Drift Continues to Harm Millions of Farmland Acres, Wild Places, Endangered Species
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February 16th, 2023
Despite Clear Evidence of Continuing Dicamba Pesticide Harm, EPA Makes Only Minor Changes to Its Approval
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December 23rd, 2022
Court Forces EPA to Address Harms of Four Pesticides to Endangered Species
Decision Among Three Recent Rulings Chastising Agency for Not Completing Required Reviews of Pesticides' Harms to Protected Species
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December 21st, 2022
Court Rules EPA's Registration of Bee-Killing Insecticide Unlawful, Citing Failure to Assess Risks to Endangered Species
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December 21st, 2022
Groups Sue EPA Over Decades of Inaction on Harmful Endocrine-Disrupting Pesticides
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November 22nd, 2022
Court Orders EPA to Protect Endangered Wildlife from Toxic Pesticide
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October 12th, 2022
Groups Sue EPA for Failing to Assess Real-World Harms of Pesticides
Lawsuit claims EPA does not review actual pesticide formulations in assessing pesticide risks
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September 1st, 2022
Center for Food Safety Asks Court to Overturn EPA Approval of Toxic Fungicide That Causes Neurological Harms and Imperils Wildlife, Endangered Species
"EPA reapproved this toxic fungicide while blatantly, and intentionally, violating core public health and environmental protection laws."
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July 19th, 2022
EPA Finds New Insecticide Is Putting Over 100 Species in Jeopardy of Extinction
Sulfoxaflor Likely Harms More Than One-Third of Protected Plants, Animals
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July 19th, 2022
Biden Administration Rejects Legal Petition to Phase Out Use of Toxic Agricultural Pesticides on National Wildlife Refuges
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July 18th, 2022
Legal Victory: Court Orders New Endangered Species Review for Toxic Fungicide
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July 7th, 2022
Monsanto and BASF Responsible for Unprecedented Peach Orchard Damage from Volatile Dicamba Pesticide, Appeals Court Rules
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June 17th, 2022
Federal Court Rejects Glyphosate Registration Decision Because EPA Ignored Cancer Risks, Endangered Species Risks
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June 16th, 2022
EPA Admits Grave Harm to Hundreds of Endangered Species from Neonicotinoid Insecticides
New Analysis Completed as Required by 2019 CFS Litigation Settlement; Acknowledges Neonics Are "Likely to Adversely Affect" up to 79% of America's endangered species
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June 14th, 2022
Lawsuit Challenges Fungicide That Causes Neurological Harms and Imperils Wildlife, Endangered Species
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June 8th, 2022
Lawsuit Challenging EPA's Approval of Drift-Prone Dicamba Pesticide Moves Forward
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May 26th, 2022
Court Rejects California's Blanket Approval of Pesticide Spraying
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May 24th, 2022
Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Up Slightly, Still Below Extinction Threshold
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February 24th, 2022
Legal Petition Urges Biden Administration to Ban Toxic Agricultural Pesticides on National Wildlife Refuges
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February 23rd, 2022
BASF to Stop Selling Pesticide Trifludimoxazin Rather Than Continue Litigation
Conservation Groups Prevail in Challenge to Herbicide Known to Be Extremely Harmful to Endangered Fish
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January 18th, 2022
Media Advisory: Public Oral Argument in Lawsuit Challenging EPA Approval of Bee-Killing Insecticide Sulfoxaflor
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January 7th, 2022
Public Interest Groups Ask Court to Move Forward with Lawsuit Challenging EPA's Approval of Drift-Prone Dicamba Pesticide
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January 7th, 2022
Media Advisory: Public Oral Argument in Lawsuit Challenging EPA Approval of Toxic Herbicide Glyphosate
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December 21st, 2021
EPA Admits Continued Widespread Dicamba Drift Damage, Yet Still Will Not Cancel Latest Registration Despite Harms to Farmers and Endangered Species
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December 21st, 2021
CFS Statement on EPA's Summary of Dicamba-Related Incident Reports from the 2021 Growing Season
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December 21st, 2021
Lawsuit Challenges EPA's Failure to Obey Court Order to Protect Endangered Wildlife From Toxic Pesticide
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December 16th, 2021
Court Urged to Overturn EPA Approval of Toxic New Pesticide Known to Harm Endangered Salmon, Sturgeon
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December 15th, 2021
EPA Sued Over Failure to Close Pesticide-Coated Seed Loophole Killing Bees and Endangered Species
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November 22nd, 2021
Senator Booker Reintroduces Legislation in Congress to Reform Pesticide Regulation and Protect Farmworkers
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August 26th, 2021
Pursuant to CFS Litigation Settlement, EPA Releases Evaluations Showing Severe Risk to Endangered Species from Neonic Pesticides
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August 18th, 2021
EPA Cancels All Food Uses of Brain-Damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
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August 17th, 2021
124 Organizations Demand Home Depot and Lowe's Immediately Pull Cancer-Linked Weedkiller Following Bayer Announcement that Glyphosate Will Remain in Roundup Until 2023
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August 16th, 2021
Farmworkers and Conservationists' Lawsuit Seeking to Remove Roundup from the Market Moves Forward
Newly Revealed Documents Show EPA Covered Up Cancer Risk Concerns
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July 29th, 2021
Monsanto-Bayer to End U.S. Residential Sales of Toxic Pesticide Glyphosate
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July 19th, 2021
Groups Sue EPA Over Approval of Toxic Herbicide Citing Risks to Endangered Species, Drift Harms
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June 24th, 2021
Kroger Urged to Eliminate Bee-Toxic Pesticides from Its Food Supply Chain
Groups urge grocer to save bees from "insect apocalypse" during National Pollinator Week
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May 26th, 2021
Judge Denies Bayer's 'Clearly Unreasonable' Proposal to Settle Future Roundup Cancer Claims
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May 24th, 2021
EPA Watchdog Report: Senior Staffers in Trump EPA Changed, Omitted Science During 2018 Review of Dicamba; Skipped Internal Peer-Review Process
Assessment was Edited to Exclude Evidence of Pesticide's Troubling Drift Risks
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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
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