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?

In defiance of earlier court ruling, USDA allows continued growing of controversial, illegally planted crop

Orders removal of genetically engineered sugar beet seed crop; finds government and Monsanto rushed to illegally plant herbicide resistant crop

Court schedules hearing to consider request to destroy illegal crop

Feds hand out permits to plant GE crop with no public input, notice or comment

Attempt to circumvent recent federal court order making the plantings illegal

Bans planting or sale of controversial crop

Indicates permanent injunction likely

Earlier court decision found federal acceptance of GE sugar beets to be unlawful