Center for Food Safety
Center for Food Safety is a national, non-profit, membership organization founded in 1997 to protect human health and the environment by curbing the use of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture. CFS maintains offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, California and Portland, Oregon, and has more than 300,000 members across the country.
Releases by this organization
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Newswire article Friday, March 20, 2020 Farmworkers and Conservationists Sue EPA for Re-Approving Monsanto Cancer-Causing Pesticide Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) on behalf of a broad coalition of farmworkers, farmers, and conservationists, filed a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its January 2020 re-approval of the pesticide glyphosate, best known as the active ingredient in Monsanto’... Read more |
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Newswire article Wednesday, February 12, 2020 Groups Sue Farm Service Agency for Concealing Records on Funding of Industrial Animal Ag Today, a group of advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit against the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to stop its systematic delay and over-redaction of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses. Advocacy groups have long been seeking loan-related records to understand how taxpayer dollars are propping... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, January 30, 2020 Siding With Monsanto, Trump EPA Once Again Greenlights Roundup The Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency today announced an interim decision on its regulatory review of glyphosate, best known as the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup line of herbicides. The decision included a few minor measures purported to address glyphosate spray drift... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, October 10, 2019 California Ends Sale of Toxic Pesticide Chlorpyrifos This week, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) announced that the sale of the toxic pesticide, chlorpyrifos, will end in February 2020 as a result of an agreement between the Department of Pesticide Regulation and pesticide manufacturers. “Once again, California is leading the... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Lawsuit Challenges Trump EPA’s 200 Million-Acre Expansion of Bee-Killing Pesticide The Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration today over its July decision to approve use of the bee-killing pesticide sulfoxaflor across more than 200 million acres of crops. The approval was granted despite the fact that the Environmental... Read more |
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Newswire article Thursday, July 18, 2019 100,000+ People Demand a Green New Deal that Transforms Our Food System to Combat the Climate Crisis Today, eight environmental, farmworker, public health, and food safety advocacy organizations delivered a petition—signed by more than 100,000 people—to Congress. The petition champions solutions to urgent food and agriculture issues that should be addressed in Representative Alexandria Ocasio-... Read more |
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Newswire article Tuesday, July 02, 2019 Center for Food Safety Sues Trump Administration for Unlawfully Keeping Secret the Reasons for Gutting the School Lunch Nutrition Program Center for Food Safety (CFS) has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Department of Agriculture for the agency’s failure to release government documents detailing why it decided to substantially reduce or eliminate child school lunch nutrition standards. The lawsuit specifically... Read more |
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Newswire article Friday, May 24, 2019 Decision on Monarch Butterfly’s Endangered Species Protection Extended to 2020 In an agreement approved today, the Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety accepted an extended deadline for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide on protection for monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act. In light of the extreme effects climate had on the... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, May 06, 2019 Defenders of Organic Integrity Win Victory for Transparency and Open Government Today, the Federal District Court in San Francisco agreed with organic farmers, consumers, and animal welfare advocates that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) cannot hide communications and documents that led up to the controversial decision by the Trump administration to withdraw... Read more |
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Newswire article Monday, March 11, 2019 FDA Lifts Import Ban on Genetically Engineered Salmon The Center for Food Safety, Friends of the Earth, Quinault Indian Nation, and Feed Seven Generations today decried the FDA’s decision to lift the 2016 import alert that banned genetically engineered salmon from entering the U.S . “USDA’s new guidelines don’t require adequate mandatory labeling, don... Read more |