Food

The Latest On: Food

February 13, 2019 | Blog Post

Insects Are Disappearing at an Alarming Rate. Here’s What We’re Doing.

Earthjustice is fighting to stop the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which are wiping out beneficial insects and threatening the health of our planet.

February 12, 2019 | Report

Climate Instability and Agriculture: The Challenge and Solution

Industrial agriculture drives climate instability. Explaining the benefits of climate-friendly farming and current Earthjustice efforts.

January 9, 2019 | Blog Post

The Storm Moved on, But North Carolina’s Hog Waste Didn’t

Earthjustice and our partners are working to prevent future hog waste floods in the area hit hardest by Hurricane Florence.

January 8, 2019 | Feature

From the Experts: Climate Action Is a Secret Winner in the 2018 Farm Bill

The 2018 Farm Bill is surprisingly climate-conscious.

January 5, 2019 | Report

Soil Health Initiatives in New York

How agro-ecological practices can make agriculture carbon neutral.

December 13, 2018 | Feature

From the Experts: Renewable Fuels - When a Promising Climate Solution Becomes a Climate Threat

It is time to ensure that only land with minimal climate and environmental impacts is used to grow biofuel crops.

December 11, 2018 | Blog Post

The FDA Dumps Its Recipe for Disaster

The agency finally nixed its approval of several cancer-causing food additives after years of advocacy and an Earthjustice lawsuit.

November 16, 2018 | Blog Post

A Just Way to Put Food on the Table

From banning toxic nerve agent pesticides to protecting our farmworkers, Earthjustice remains committed to remaking our food system into one that nourishes and sustains life for all of us.

October 30, 2018 | Fact Sheet

Aggregate Compliance Fact Sheet

This fact sheet details why EPA’s “aggregate compliance” approach to the definition of “renewable biomass” under the renewable fuel standard program must be amended in order to prevent conversion of native grassland.

October 30, 2018 | Legal Document

Aggregate Compliance Petition

Groups filed a petition with U.S. EPA asserting the agency has illegally allowed millions of acres of wildlife habitat to be converted to corn and soybean crops to satiate the U.S. biofuels policy under the Renewable Fuels Standard.