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Climate change leaves CA wine lovers with fewer options California’s popular wine varieties may soon be hard to find thanks to drier and hotter temperatures caused by climate change, reports the Center for Investigative Reporting. Though by now farmers are used to Mother Nature’s unpredictability, a slightly wetter or drier season is nothing compared to…

Insurance agency says fracking too risky to cover.

Breweries worry that extreme gas drilling will frack their beer It turns out that hydraulic gas drilling or fracking doesn’t just contaminate the air and water; it could also mess up your favorite brew, reports Mother Jones. Brewmasters like Brooklyn Brewery and upstate New York’s Ommegang Brewery are raising the alarm about toxic fracking chemicals…

EPA disses green chemistry program.

Big business attack ads create fear conditions for environmental scientists.

This is the final part in a series of Q & A's on genetically engineered food, which harm the environment by increasing pesticide use, creating pesticide resistant superweeds and contaminating conventional and organic crops.

This is the third in a series of Q & A's on genetically engineered food, which harm the environment by increasing pesticide use, creating pesticide resistant superweeds and contaminating conventional and organic crops.

Earthjustice is challenging the USDA's decision to allow genetically engineered sugar beets and alfalfa onto the market.

Why are genetically engineered (GE) crops bad for the environment?

On behalf of a diverse coalition of conventional and organic farmers, dairies and agricultural associations, and environmental and consumer groups, Earthjustice sued the Department of Agriculture in 2011 to challenge its decision to deregulate Monsanto’s genetically engineered strain of alfalfa. To most plants, as well as many fish and amphibians, the herbicide glyphosate is severely…

Monsanto commonly offers unsustainable solutions to the agriculture industry such as genetically engineered seeds and increased herbicide use and then dubs those dubious solutions "sustainable agriculture."

“Roundup Ready” alfalfa will increase pesticide use and cause grave harm to environment and organic industry

EPA proposes strict rules on pesticide testing The EPA recently proposed strict rules meant to keep pesticides manufacturers from paying people to eat or drink pesticides, enter pesticide vapor “chambers,” or have pesticides sprayed in their eyes, reports FairWarning. The proposal, spurred on by a 2010 court settlement between Earthjustice clients and the EPA, will…