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New Analyses: EPA Consistently Fails to Warn Public of Pesticide Cancer Risks

EPA Consistently Fails to Warn Public of Pesticide Cancer Risks WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency ...
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Washington State's Landmark Net Pen Aquaculture Ban Protected in Victory for Clean Water and Aquatic Ecosystems

Industrial Aquaculture Proponents Give Up In Legal Challenge, Center for Food Safety and Wild Fish Conservancy Celebrate ...
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Broad Array of Nonprofits Tell U.S. Supreme Court Not to Grant Pesticide Companies Immunity from Cancer Warnings

A coalition of consumer, public health, sustainable agriculture, and conservation organizations represented by Center for ...
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5 Ways to Eat Citrus Peels

Citrus season is winding down, but there’s still time to get the most out of your winter fruit. Citrus peels are a woefully underused part of the fruit that are completely edible and delicious.
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Community Members Sue to Protect St. Lawrence River from Mega-Dairy Pollution

CLAYTON, NY – Center for Food Safety and community members today sued Wood Dairy Farms in the Northern District of New York federal court to end the operation's pollution of the St. Lawrence River and ...
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EPA Agrees To Address Factory Farm Water Pollution Petition This Summer

Yesterday, Food & Water Watch, Center for Food Safety, and nine other organizations reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in a lawsuit against the agency's unreasonable ...
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Construction on Nation's Largest Factory Farm Gas Facility Could Begin Imminently in Washington's Yakima Valley

Construction of what would be one of the largest — if not the largest — methane digester facility in the United States could begin soon in Sunnyside, Washington, unless local and state regulators act.
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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 ...
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U.S. Tries to Force Potentially Hazardous GM Corn on Mexico

The Center for Food Safety (CFS) today released an analysis supporting Mexico in its bid to maintain restrictions protecting its food supply from potentially hazardous genetically modified (GM) corn.
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Mars Finally Removes Titanium Dioxide from Skittles After Decade of CFS Advocacy

This week, after almost a decade of advocacy by Center for Food Safety (CFS) and allies, Mars, Inc. confirmed they have removed titanium dioxide, a potentially carcinogenic food additive, from ...
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Conservationists and Farmers Sue Over Trump Administration Removal of Most Genetically Engineered Organism Regulation

SAN FRANCISCO—Today Center for Food Safety (CFS) and allied plaintiffs filed a new federal lawsuit challenging the 2020 decision by the Trump administration's Department of Agriculture's (USDA) to ...
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Federal Court Halts Spraying of Monsanto's Dicamba Pesticide Across Millions of Acres of Cotton, Soybeans

Tucson, Ariz. – In a sweeping victory for family farmers and dozens of endangered plants and animals, a federal court today revoked approval of the notoriously volatile, weed-killing pesticide dicamba ...