In 2005, the state of Hawai’i’s Board of Agriculture approved a permit to allow the importation of algae genetically engineered to produce drugs on the Kona coast of the Big Island. The project proposed to manufacture, in an outdoor environment at a state-owned technology park known as the Natural Energy Laboratory Hawai’i (NELH), “biopharmaceutical” microalgae…

Environmental Review Required for Genetically Engineered Algae Project

Lawsuit seeks further study of consequences of genetically modified microorganisms