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January 10th, 2020
Center for Food Safety's Statement on Governor Newsom's Proposed Budget
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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 Newsom for his commitment to healthy soils, sustainable food production and pest management, agricultural solutions to climate change, and Farm to School programs in his 2020-2021 bu…
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July 18th, 2019
100,000+ People Demand a Green New Deal that Transforms Our Food System to Combat the Climate Crisis
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100,000+  People Demand a Green New Deal that Transforms Our Food System to Combat the Climate Crisis Citizen Petition Identifies Four Food System Policy Principles and Priorities that the Green New Deal Should Follow WASHINGTON, D.C…
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June 13th, 2019
Center for Food Safety's Rebuttal to Impossible Foods' Statement on Regenerative Ag
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Center for Food Safety's Rebuttal to Impossible Foods' Statement on Regenerative Ag Yesterday, Impossible Foods, maker of the plant-based Impossible Burger, issued a statement   that regenerative grazing is not a sustainable alternative to factory farming, even going as far as to say that grazing ultimately harms the environment…
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April 10th, 2019
More than 300 Groups Urge Congress to Make Food and Agriculture Central to the Climate Crisis and Green New Deal Debate
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More than 300 Groups Urge Congress to Make Food and Agriculture Central to the Climate Crisis and Green New Deal Debate America's farmers, ranchers, fishers, and workers who feed the nation must be at the center of this policy agenda WASHINGTON, D.C…
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June 6th, 2017
Hawai'i Becomes First State to Adopt Paris Climate Pledge
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Hawai‘i Center for Food Safety-sponsored bill to establish soil task force signed into law HONOLULU — Today marks an historic moment in the efforts to fight the impacts of climate change as Governor David Ige signs two bills into law that make HawaiÊ»i the first in the nation to legally support the Paris Climate agreement…
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June 1st, 2017
Trump's Decision to Pull the U.S. out of Paris Climate Agreement Threatens Global Food Security
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U.S. withdrawal could result in increased hunger and malnutrition President ignores advice from scientists and wishes of Americans, threatening U.S. agriculture SAN FRANCISCO, CA—President Trump’s decision to pull out from the 2015 Paris climate agreement is a major setback for the treaty, and for our ability to combat the climate crisis. Trump’s move puts the U.S…
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May 22nd, 2017
Landmark Report Shows Bee-killing Seed Coatings Aren't Worth the Harm
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 22, 2017 Landmark Report Shows Bee-killing Seed Coatings Aren’t Worth the Harm Farmer and environmental friendly alternatives should replace toxic neonic seed coatings WASHINGTON— A new report, Alternatives to Neonicotinoid Insecticide-Coated Corn Seed: Agroecological Methods are better for Farmers and the Environment , released today from Center for …
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April 18th, 2017
Why CFS is Marching for Science and Climate
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Why We Are Marching for Science and Climate This month the Center for Food Safety (CFS) will join thousands in Washington DC and around the world in two monumental marches—the March for Science, April 22, and the Peoples Climate March, April 29. On behalf of our rural communities, our farmers, our food, and the environment, CFS will march for truth and justice…
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March 28th, 2017
Trump Signs Away Action on Climate Change Impacts
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Trump Signs Away Action on Climate Change Impacts Executive Order Unravels National Progress to Fight Effects of Climate Change WASHINGTON— Today President Trump signed an Executive Order that drastically rolls back progress made by the Obama administration to tackle the environmental, economic and public health impacts of global climate change…
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November 10th, 2016
The Food Movement Will Move Forward
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Center for Food Safety vows to hold strong in the wake of monumental presidential election WASHINGTON— The results of yesterday’s historic U.S. presidential election will have far-reaching implications for all aspects of American life, including the Center for Food Safety’s work to protect our food, our farms and our environment…
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December 3rd, 2015
World Soil Day Can Bring Hope to Climate Talks
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Center for Food Safety champions potential of soil carbon sequestration at official Paris climate negotiations View Soil Solutions to Climate Problems Released in Paris PARIS, FRANCE (December 3, 2015)— Center for Food Safety (CFS) is honoring World Soil Day — Saturday, December 5th — by championing the potential of soil carbon sequestration to significantly address clim…
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December 18th, 2014
Obama Administration Responds to CFS Legal Petition and Updates Climate Change Protocols
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Washington D.C. (December 18, 2014) – Today the White House's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released updated draft guidance for federal agencies on how to consider greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of climate change before approving new projects…
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August 11th, 2014
Obama Administration: Environmental Reviews Must Include Analysis of Climate Change
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The White House's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has responded to a legal petition spearheaded by International Center for Technology Assessment (ICTA) in 2008 to require federal agencies to analyze climate change impacts before approving new projects. CEQ refused to answer the legal petition until ICTA and Center for Food Safety (CFS) sued in a federal court…
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April 2nd, 2014
Obama Administration's Failure to Act on Climate Change Sparks Lawsuit
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Council on Environmental Quality's Inaction is Unlawful - Lawsuit Filed Just as Latest Climate Report Shows Crisis Worsening Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a federal lawsuit against the Obama Administration’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) over the agency’s failure to take legally required, urgent action on climate change…
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February 27th, 2014
New Report Connects Climate Change & Food Insecurity
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Underscores Organic Agriculture's Climate Resilience Food security requires a stable climate and, according to a new report released today by Center for Food Safety’s Cool Foods Campaign, this security is being jeopardized by climate change…
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January 29th, 2014
Telling our grandchild "we did all we could" to fight climate change requires more than investing in new sources of energy
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President Obama, in his State of the Union remarks, offered the following on climate change: Climate change is a fact. And when our children’s children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us to be able to say yes, we did…
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October 31st, 2013
CFS's Cool Foods Campaign Wins Judges' Choice Award in Round One of MIT Competition, Competing for $10,000 Grand Prize
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“Food Solutions to Climate Problems? There’s an App for that!” Center for Food Safety’s “Cool Foods” Campaign has received the Judges Choice Award for “Reducing consumption” in the 2012-2013 MIT Climate CoLab contest. Out of 400 submissions, Center for Food Safety (CFS) was one of 28 first round winners…
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