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      Mexican farmers take part in a march against NAFTA

      US Attempt to Sabotage Mexico's GMO Corn Ban Denounced as '21st-Century Imperialism'

      "Our government is working tirelessly to pad the multibillion-dollar profits of domestic agribusiness corporations by pushing GE corn," said one U.S. environmental group.

      Jake Johnson
      Feb 15, 2023

      Environmental groups on Tuesday accused the Biden administration of putting the profits of big agribusiness over public health and critical pollinators by attempting to obstruct the Mexican government's ongoing push to ban genetically engineered corn.

      "The U.S.'s shameful efforts to strong-arm Mexico into accepting GE corn it has rejected is nothing short of 21st-century imperialism,” Lori Ann Burd, environmental health director at the U.S.-based Center for Biological Diversity. "Our government is working tirelessly to pad the multibillion-dollar profits of domestic agribusiness corporations by pushing GE corn, even though our glyphosate-drenched GE cornfields are playing an outsized role in driving catastrophic declines in vital pollinator populations."

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      Tongass National Forest

      Biden Restores Vital Protections for Alaska's Tongass National Forest Gutted by Trump

      "This is great news for the forest, the salmon, the wildlife, and the people who depend on intact ecosystems to support their ways of life and livelihoods," said one advocate.

      Brett Wilkins
      Jan 25, 2023

      Indigenous and green groups on Wednesday applauded the Biden administration for reinstating protections for millions of acres of wilderness in Alaska's Tongass National Forest that were lifted during a Trump-era regulatory rollback spree.

      The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Wednesday that it has finalized protections for the Tongass National Forest by restoring "longstanding roadless protections to 9.37 million acres of roadless areas that support the ecological, economic, and cultural values of Southeastern Alaska."

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      This October 14, 2014 photo shows an oil rig in Vernal, Utah, in the Uintah Basin. (Photo: RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

      Green Groups Rally Against 'Filthy Oil Train' in Western US

      "It's a climate-killing fossil fuel behemoth that will endanger Utahns and Coloradoans and worsen the climate emergency," said Randi Spivak of the Center for Biological Diversity.

      Andrea Germanos
      Jan 27, 2022

      Warning of "tremendous" environmental harm, more planet-heating pollution, and the undermining of White House climate goals, over 100 advocacy groups on Wednesday urged President Joe Biden's agriculture secretary to take action to block a proposed oil rail line in eastern Utah.

      "Increased drilling and extraction the railway seeks to induce will boost greenhouse pollution at every step in the process."

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