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Tripple Brook Farm Neonic Policy
It is policy at Tripple Brook Farm to not sell plants containing pesticides that harm bees and other pollinators — this includes pesticide products containing systemic neonicotinoid pesticides.
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FDA on “Bleeding” veggie burger: “no basis for safety”
The company privately admitted to the FDA that it had not conducted or designed safety tests of burger’s key GMO ingredient.
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Letter Opposing Nomination of Sam Clovis for USDA
The USDA needs strong leadership to support the hard-working scientists who ensure the agency’s scientific integrity and provide policymakers and the American public with the best information availa…
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Impossible Burger: FOIA Documents
Freedom of Information Act documents regarding the genetically engineered Impossible Burger.
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Congressional briefing on pesticides toxic to bees, birds, and other wildlife
Advocates will document the devastating impacts of pollinator population decline.
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Food safety and environmental organizations call on EPA to ban bee-killing pesticides
A coalition of food safety and environmental groups will deliver hundreds of thousands of public comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday, urging the agency to ban neonicotinoid…
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Trump nominates anti-science climate denier to lead USDA Science, violating 2008 Farm Bill
Trump’s nomination of Clovis violates the 2008 Farm Bill, which states that the nominee “shall be appointed by the P…
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What Kroger Can Do To Protect People, Pollinators and the Planet
Beekeepers, farmworkers, and concerned Cincinnati residents gathered outside of Kroger’s annual shareholder meeting on Thursday, June 22, to urge Kroger to stop selling food grown with bee-killing p…
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Trump tax agenda threatens the planet
As the House Leadership unveils its FY2018 Budget Resolution, including instructions to push ahead with tax reform and to raise revenue from drilling, a new analysis from Friends of the Earth hig…
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Report Calls for Abandoning Bungled Nuclear Project in South Carolina
COLUMBIA, S.C. – An in-depth economic analysis released today documents that a problem-plagued nuclear reactor construction project in South Carolina must be abandoned. The report concludes that mon…