GMO

November 5, 2020 | Press Release: Victory

Federal Court Declares Genetically Engineered Salmon Unlawful

Court rules U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to analyze the risk escaped engineered salmon pose to endangered wild salmon

November 5, 2020 | Explainer

What You Should Know About Genetically Engineered Salmon

A short guide to the first laboratory-created animal approved for human consumption.

November 5, 2020 | Case

Seeking Full Review of GE Salmon Environmental Risks

Earthjustice is challenging the FDA’s proposal to approve genetically engineered salmon, the first-ever GE animal intended for human consumption.

August 25, 2020 | In the News: Courthouse News Service

Federal Judge Poised to Deny Approval of GMO Salmon

Brettny Hardy, Attorney, Oceans Program, Earthjustice: “Whatever they do here is going to inform the approval for those other applications and is going to inform what the FDA does for all GE animals going forward. If the analysis they are doing here is inadequate that means it’s never going to be enough. It’s not going to get better.”

June 4, 2019 | Press Release

After Civil Rights Complaint By Native Hawaiian Groups, U.S. EPA Acts On Pesticide Impact

Groups complained the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act through lax implementation and enforcement of pesticide regulations that protect Native Hawaiian communities

February 12, 2018 | Press Release

Farmers, Conservationists Challenge Trump’s EPA, Monsanto Over Crop-Damaging Pesticide

EPA unlawfully approved Monsanto’s XtendiMax weed-killer, ignoring warnings of rampant drift, destroying crops on millions of acres in devastating 2017 farm season with more to come

March 21, 2017 | Case

Engineering an Environmental Disaster: 2,4-D Resistant Crops

2,4-D is a component of Agent Orange, the notorious defoliant manufactured by Monsanto and Dow. USDA proposes to allow farmers to plant 2,4-D resistant corn and soy wherever they please without any government oversight, and downplays any and all impacts.

January 23, 2017 | Legal Document

Petition for Review: Approval of Dicamba Use on Engineered Crops

Petitioners respectfully petition this Court to find that (1) EPA violated its duties under FIFRA in issuing the conditional registration, and (2) EPA violated the Agency’s duties under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), 16 U.S.C. §§ 1533-44, by failing to consult with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service to insure that conditionally registering dicamba for uses on genetically engineered cotton and soybean in the thirty-four states will not jeopardize any listed species or destroy or adversely modify any of their critical habitats, see 16 U.S.C. § 1536 (a)(2), and to grant relief as may be appropriate.

January 23, 2017 | Case

Challenging EPA, Monsanto Over the Crop-Damaging Pesticide “XtendiMax”

Public interest organizations are representing farmers and conservationists in a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Monsanto Company, challenging EPA’s approval of Monsanto’s new “XtendiMax” pesticide. XtendiMax is Monsanto’s version of dicamba, an old and highly drift-prone weed-killer.