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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 ...
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EPA Issues Permit For Velella Epsilon Fish Farm Despite Strong Public Opposition
Additional concerns include risks from hurricane damage, microplastic and monofilament pollution, negligent release of ...
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Victory for Oceans and the Public Good: Federal Government Declines to Appeal Ruling Striking Down Offshore Fish Farming
In a decisive moment for ocean protection and environmental law, last week the federal government declined to appeal a ...
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Mars Finally Removes Titanium Dioxide from Skittles After Decade of CFS Advocacy
WASHINGTON, DC—In a decisive moment for ocean protection and environmental law, last week the federal government declined to appeal a court ruling that struck down Nationwide Permit 56 (NWP 56), effec ...
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Groups Sue EPA Over Failure to Regulate Insecticide-Coated Seeds
SAN FRANCISCO—Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to close a regulatory loophole ...
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California Dairy Digesters and Low Carbon Fuel Standard Program: Myths and Facts
California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) currently allows our biggest polluters to offset their pollution with even more pollution, but SB709 in California seeks to change that. Read our factsheet ...
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Hawai'i Food & Agriculture Policy Update: May 2016
Establish First State-Funded Tax Credit in the U.S. to Support Organic Farming Secure Funding for Pesticide Regulation & Farm-to-School Efforts Defeat Right to Spray Legislation & Protect County Home ...
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Lawsuit Challenges "Bioengineered" GMO Food Labeling
(San Francisco, Cal.) Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Trump Administration's Department of Agriculture (USDA) challenging USDA's rules on labeling ...
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Farmers and Nonprofits Sue Trump's USDA over Organic Soil-less Loophole
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS), along with a coalition of organic farms and stakeholders, filed a lawsuit challenging the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) ...
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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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Federal Court Declares Genetically Engineered Salmon Unlawful
San Francisco, Calif.—Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violated core environmental laws in approving the genetically ...
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Monsanto-Bayer to End U.S. Residential Sales of Toxic Pesticide Glyphosate
"Bayer's decision to end U.S. residential sale of Roundup is a historic victory for public health and the environment. As agricultural, large-scale use of this toxic pesticide continues, our ...