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
WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency is set to reapprove several neonicotinoid pesticides now in use across hundreds of millions of acres despite evidence from rodent studies of their poten
SAN FRANCISCO–After decades of inaction, last Friday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed plan to implement its Endocrine-Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP), EPA's progra
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Today, in response to a 2023 petition by Center for Food Safety, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that Endangered Species Act (ESA or "the Act") protections may be
WASHINGTON—Center for Food Safety (CFS) is endorsing the Toxic Free Foods Act, legislation re-introduced last week by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) that would overhaul the Food and Drug Administration's (F
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), along with 16 other organizations, academics, physicians, and experts representing a wide range of interests, submitted a petition for rulemaki