Legal Challenge Filed to Push By EPA, Pesticide Industry to Keep Bee-Killing Pesticide on Market

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December 8th, 2020

(San Francisco, Cal.) Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity filed an opposition brief yesterday in their ongoing litigation challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc

December 7th, 2020

Center for Food Safety Opposes Tom Vilsack's Potential Nomination for Secretary of Agriculture

(Washington, D.C.) According to Politico and several other news outlets, President-elect Joe Biden is strongly considering picking former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to return as head of the U.S

December 7th, 2020

Center for Food Safety Decries EPA Proposed Interim Decision on Brain-Damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

(December 7, 2020; Washington, D.C.) Last Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed interim decision on the toxic, brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos, effectively c

November 23rd, 2020

To Protect Wild Steelhead, Salmon, Orcas, Environmental Groups Appeal Approval of Puget Sound Commercial Net Pen Aquaculture to Washington's Supreme Court

November 23, 2020—Cooke Aquaculture, the company responsible for the 2017 release of over 250,000 nonnative Atlantic salmon into Washington's Puget Sound, will face a new challenge to their proposal t

November 20th, 2020

Court Rules State of California Lacks Authority to Protect Imperiled Bumble Bee Species Under the California Endangered Species Act

(November 20, 2020; Sacramento, Calif.) This week, in a blow to imperiled bee and insect populations, the Sacramento County Superior Court issued a ruling in Almond Alliance v. California Fish and Gam

November 18th, 2020

Center for Food Safety's Biden Administration Priority Recommendations Urgently Needed to Protect Our Food and Environment

(November 18, 2020; Washington, D.C.) Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) publicly released a list of urgent agricultural, food, public health, and environmental policy recommendations submitted to th

November 17th, 2020

New Survey: COVID-19 Pandemic Has Brought Unprecedented Awareness and Consensus Regarding Factory Farming Risks

NEW YORK—Today the ASPCA® (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) released data from a new public opinion survey conducted by Lake Research Partners, showing that the COVID-19

November 5th, 2020

Federal Court Declares Genetically Engineered Salmon Unlawful

Rejects far-reaching FDA claim it lacks duty to protect the environment from genetically engineered animals San Francisco, Calif.—Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Californ

November 2nd, 2020

Coalition Appeals EPA Permit Allowing Industrial Wastewater from Fish Farm in Gulf of Mexico

SARASOTA, FL—On Friday, Center for Food Safety, the Don't Cage Our Ocean Coalition, and allies filed an appeal against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) pollution discharge permit for

October 30th, 2020

Lawsuit Challenges EPA Reapproval of Endocrine-Disrupting Pesticide Atrazine

Washington, D.C.—Public-interest groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today over its decision to reapprove atrazine, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned across much of the

October 27th, 2020

EPA Reapproves Dangerous, Drift-prone Dicamba Pesticides Recently Banned by Federal Court for Causing Widespread Economic Harm to Farmers

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the reapproval of three products containing the drift-prone herbicide dicamba for use on Monsanto's genetically engineered

October 23rd, 2020

Lawsuit Filed to Protect Endangered Wildlife From Dangerous New Fungicide

SAN FRANCISCO—Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of a toxic new fungicide without fully add

October 12th, 2020

Public Oral Argument in NGO Groups' Unfair Practices and False Advertising Lawsuit Against Sanderson Farms

(San Francisco, Calif.) Tomorrow, on Tuesday, October 13th, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments in Center for Food Safety and Friends of the Earth's lawsuit ag

October 7th, 2020

Governor Newsom Signs Executive Order to Protect Biodiversity, Coastal Waters, and Working Lands

Today California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order for California to protect "30 by 30," conserving 30 percent of the state's land and coastal waters by 2030. According to Governor Newso

October 5th, 2020

Lawsuit Filed to Protect States' Labeling of Genetically Engineered Seeds

San Francisco, Cal.—Center for Food Safety (CFS) has filed an amended complaint in their ongoing litigation challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) "bioengineered" (more commonly kno

September 23rd, 2020

Lack of Key Considerations in FDA Food Chemical Safety Process Leaves Consumers at Risk of Chronic Diseases

Washington, D.C.—Today, a group of health, environmental, and consumer organizations challenged the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) practice of not accounting for the cumulative health effect o

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