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The Supreme Court sided with #Monsanto today, eliminating the right of people to hold pesticide companies accountable when they fail to warn consumers that their products may cause cancer.
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The United Farm Workers union mourns the passing and celebrates the life of UFW cofounder Dolores Huerta.
The greatest possible tribute to her life is for her work of organizing to continue. 1/
ALT photo of Dolores Huerta taking at UFW convention
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Legendary labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta has passed away at age 96.
She coined the phrase “Sí, se puede,” and was a founder of the United Farm Workers Union, helping hundreds of thousands of workers achieve better working conditions since the 1960s.
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NEW: California illegally spurred a “gold rush in cow manure,” a lawsuit from @foodandwater, @ALDF, @CFSTrueFood, and the “Defensores” alleges.
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The dangerous herbicide #atrazine is banned in 60 countries, yet it remains one of the most used pesticides in the US. A new analysis shows atrazine pollutes 25% of all continental US rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health.
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Learn more about our work to stop this toxic herbicide: centerforfoodsafety.org/case…
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The @EPAgov announced it is joining @HHSGov in an interagency memorandum of understanding to “strengthen scientific coordination” and “expand the evidence” for the EPA’s ongoing registration review of the weedkiller glyphosate.
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The Trump administration's new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act “is not conservation,” warned one critic. “It is a license to destroy habitat, disrupt migration, pollute ecosystems, and drive endangered species toward extinction.” commondreams.org/news/endage…
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BREAKING: The EPA is eliminating a rule that limits planet-warming pollution from coal and gas-fired power plants. apnews.com/article/epa-power…
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Revealed: The @EPA worked directly with pesticide maker @Bayer to approve the controversial herbicide dicamba earlier this year, presenting the company with different options for reducing drift and runoff, according to internal agency records.
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Center for Food Safety and our allies at Center for Biological Diversity sued to obtain records regarding the #pesticide dicamba's recent re-registration. What we found in the documents is shocking.
Pesticide approvals come out of a negotiation between the EPA and pesticide companies
We’ve never known what the sausage-making process looks like
Until now
Follow this thread for one of the most F'd up things you will ever see in pesticide regulation
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BREAKING 🚨: We just secured a huge victory in the fight for transparent GMO food labeling!
USDA is now required to close the loophole that excluded ultra-processed GMO foods from labels & must provide disclosure options other than just QR codes by January 1, 2028.
See our full press release for more info: centerforfoodsafety.org/pres…
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Four organizations filed a lawsuit against Oregon over its new permit for industrial livestock operations, alleging it fails to meet Clean Water Act standards and leaves groundwater and surface water vulnerable to pollution.
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In a new lawsuit, environmentalists and animal welfare advocacy groups allege that updated guidelines for large factory farms won’t stop them from releasing animal waste into nearby waterways in Oregon. Carlos Fuentes reports for @Oregonian:
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Four groups (@foodandwater, @CFSTrueFood, @ALDF, and @WilRiverkeeper) sued Oregon regulators last week, alleging that the state's new water quality permits for large-scale animal farms fail to protect waterways and do not include adequate monitoring.
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Today, CFS and allies sued Oregon over a new factory farm permit that fails to protect the state's waters from the vast quantities of waste produced by industrial livestock operations. The permit greenlights 350 massive factory farms, over 65% of all operations in Oregon.
"We are asking the Court to ensure this permit does not unlawfully and irresponsibly allow factory farms to shift the costs of their pollution onto the shoulders of Oregon communities and into our environment," said Suzannah Smith, CFS attorney
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