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Center For Food Safety Files Lawsuit Over Trump GE Rule wncy.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wncy.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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 eliminate most genetically engineered (GE) organism oversight, including future GE crops, trees, and grasses. Previously nearly all GE plants had to go through formal USDA approval before open air experiments or prior to commercial use. The new Trump USDA regulations exempt broad categories of GE organisms from any pre-market approval and pass any assessment duties to the biotech/pesticide companies to “self-determine” whether their products are exempt or regulated. As explained in the 90-page complaint, the rule change violated numerous core environmental laws, including the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Plant Protection Act. It also unconstitutionally delegated USDA’s statutory responsibilities to self-interested industry. ....
Lawsuit would overturn Trump-era rules on genetically engineered crops agriculture.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from agriculture.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 23May 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Covid totals continue to fall, both in the US and worldwide. New US cases during the week ending May 22nd were down 22.0% from those testing positive during the week ending May 15th, and down 64.2% from our mid-April surge high; this week s new cases were also the lowest for a 7 day period since that ending June 19th of last year. US deaths attributed to Covid this week were down 7.1% from the prior week, and less than a sixth of the death rate during the peak weeks of January. US Covid deaths were also ....
A scathing report released today by a federal oversight agency revealed that high-ranking officials in the Trump Environmental Protection Agency purposely excluded scientific evidence of dicamba’s drift risks before reapproving its use in 2018.
The Office of the Inspector General found that the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs failed to include the required internal peer reviews of scientific documents and that “senior-level” staffers “changed” and “omitted” research-based evidence of the drift risks of the pesticide that has already damaged millions of acres of crops. ....