Seattle, Washington— Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington vacated, or set aside as unlawful, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' approval of Nationwide Permit 56 (NWP 56
San Francisco, CA— Yesterday the Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed comments urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to finalize its recent proposal to list monarch butterflies under the Endan
Yesterday, in response to a challenge from community and conservation groups, the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board ordered the Department of Ecology to rewrite pollution discharge per
WASHINGTON— The annual count of migratory monarchs who spend the winter in Mexico was released today and shows that the revered orange-and-black butterflies remain vulnerable to extinction. This year'
San Francisco, CA— Conservation groups and family farmers asked a federal court today to force the Environmental Protection Agency to take long-overdue action to ensure that the highly controversial a
Bismark, North Dakota — Late yesterday, a federal judge in North Dakota vacated the Council on Environmental Quality's (CEQ) regulations that implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Tw
Washington, DC – On Tuesday, EPA released a long-awaited draft report demonstrating that toxic "forever chemicals" in sewage sludge applied to farmland can cause cancer and other diseases in people wh
Linn County, Oregon—Today, local farmer and river protection groups filed an updated challenge to the Oregon Department of Agriculture's (ODA) individual water quality permit to J-S Ranch, a mega-chic
Washington, D.C. — Today, a group of health advocates, including Center for Food Safety, and represented by Earthjustice sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to force the agency to reevaluate it
WASHINGTON – As a result of over two decades of legal actions and campaigning, the troubled biotechnology company AquaBounty has announced that it is stopping production of all genetically engineered
WASHINGTON— In response to a decade of advocacy by conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect monarch butterflies as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
SAN FRANCISCO—In a precedential victory for food and environmental safety, a federal district court ruled today that genetically engineered (GE) organisms must be regulated. The Court's ruling overtur
Washington, DC - Late yesterday, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and CropLife America in our case t
Following the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president, Center for Food Safety (CFS) issued the following statement:
"Donald Trump's previous tenure in office was marked by an extreme wi
Linn County, Oregon—Late yesterday, the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) announced that it is issuing an individual water quality permit to J-S Ranch, a mega-chicken production facility capable
United States – Today, a group of environmental and community organizations from across the United States penned a joint letter to the EPA, asking the agency to use its emergency powers to intervene i
