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May 14th, 2025
Thousands Demand Conagra Eliminate Bee-Killing Pesticides from Popcorn
Thousands Demand Conagra Eliminate Bee-Killing Pesticides from Popcorn
CHICAGO, IL — Today, nearly 30,000 customers demanded top popcorn producer Conagra Brands, Inc. [NYSE: CAG] ensure there is no use of bee-killing neonicotinoid-coated seeds in its supply with a petiti
April 29th, 2025
Petition Urges FDA to Reconsider Decision Not to Ban Controversial Drug Ractopamine
Petition Urges FDA to Reconsider Decision Not to Ban Controversial Drug Ractopamine
WASHINGTON — Today, the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF), Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, and Food Animal Concerns Trust submitted a petition urging the U.S. Food and Drug Adm
March 27th, 2025
Center for Food Safety Denounces Industry-Backed Efforts to Undermine Pesticide Protections
Center for Food Safety Denounces Industry-Backed Efforts to Undermine Pesticide Protections
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Through policy advocacy and grassroots campaigning, Center for Food Safety (CFS) is fighting back against a coordinated, industry-backed campaign threatening decades of hard-won pro
March 17th, 2025
Federal Court Strikes Down Unlawful Permit Allowing Industrial Fish Farming in Ocean Waters
Federal Court Strikes Down Unlawful Permit Allowing Industrial Fish Farming in Ocean Waters
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
March 13th, 2025
Center for Food Safety Urges Final ESA Protection for Monarch Butterflies as Numbers Hit Historic Lows
Center for Food Safety Urges Final ESA Protection for Monarch Butterflies as Numbers Hit Historic Lows
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
March 7th, 2025
WA Dept. of Ecology again ordered to rewrite industrial dairy permits to better safeguard public health, waterways, aquifers, ecosystems
WA Dept. of Ecology again ordered to rewrite industrial dairy permits to better safeguard public health, waterways, aquifers, ecosystems
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
March 7th, 2025
Eastern Monarch Population Improves But Remains Threatened
Eastern Monarch Population Improves But Remains Threatened
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'
February 19th, 2025
Legal Action Seeks to Force EPA to Protect People, Wildlife, Waterways From Atrazine Pollution
Legal Action Seeks to Force EPA to Protect People, Wildlife, Waterways From Atrazine Pollution
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
February 4th, 2025
North Dakota Federal Judge Upends Key Environmental Regulations
North Dakota Federal Judge Upends Key Environmental Regulations
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
January 16th, 2025
EPA Report Reveals Health Impacts of Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in Sewage Sludge
EPA Report Reveals Health Impacts of Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in Sewage Sludge
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
December 30th, 2024
Farmers and River Protectors Take State Back to Court to Stop Mega-Chicken Factory Farm
Farmers and River Protectors Take State Back to Court to Stop Mega-Chicken Factory Farm
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
December 19th, 2024
Health Advocates Sue FDA to Remove Phthalates from Food
Health Advocates Sue FDA to Remove Phthalates from Food
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
December 11th, 2024
Victory! GE Salmon Company AquaBounty Shutting Down Operations
Victory! GE Salmon Company AquaBounty Shutting Down Operations
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
December 10th, 2024
Monarchs Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection
Monarchs Proposed for Endangered Species Act Protection
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.
December 3rd, 2024
Victory! Federal Court Strikes Down Lax GMO Rules, Halts GE Crop Introductions Without USDA Oversight
Victory! Federal Court Strikes Down Lax GMO Rules, Halts GE Crop Introductions Without USDA Oversight
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
November 21st, 2024
Statement on Center for Food Safety et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al.
Statement on Center for Food Safety et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency et al.
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