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Article October 4, 2012

Friday Finds: Climate Change Leaves Wine Connoisseurs Dry

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…

Article July 20, 2012

Friday Finds: The Risky Business of Fracking

Insurance agency says fracking too risky to cover.

Article May 25, 2012

Friday Finds: Fracked Beer’s Killer Buzz

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…

Article April 16, 2012

Friday Finds: The Government's Toxic Love Affair

EPA disses green chemistry program.

Article February 24, 2012

Friday Finds: War on Terra

Big business attack ads create fear conditions for environmental scientists.

Article July 29, 2011

OMG, GMOs: Food Safety Attorney George Kimbrell

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.

Article July 15, 2011

OMG, GMOs: Organic Seed Farmer Frank Morton

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.

A sugar beet farm. Earthjustice is challenging the USDA's decision to allow genetically engineered sugar beets and alfalfa onto the market.
(Barbol/Shutterstock)
Article July 14, 2011

OMG, GMOs: Pesticide Expert Charles Benbrook

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

Article July 13, 2011

OMG, GMOs: Earthjustice's Paul Achitoff

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

Alfalfa fields. The USDA's decision allows growers to produce alfalfa without restriction or oversight of any kind.
(Photo courtesy of Ken Figlioli.)
case June 3, 2011

Challenging Genetically Engineered Alfalfa

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…

Article March 25, 2011

Deregulation of Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Prompts Lawsuit

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."

document March 18, 2011

GE Alfalfa Complaint

Press Release March 18, 2011

Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Approval

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

Article February 4, 2011

Friday Finds: Pesticide Trials and Errors

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…