"Northwest Farms Hit Hard by Wildfires"
"As drought-fueled wildfires rage across the West, farm communities on the frontlines are feeling the heat."
Source: Civil Eats, 09/01/2015
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"EU Watchdog Says Pesticides Harmful To Bees, Industry Disagrees"
"Widely-used pesticides made by Bayer CropScience and Syngenta pose a risk to bees, the European Union's food safety watchdog said on Wednesday, reinforcing previous research that led to EU restrictions."
Source: Reuters, 08/27/2015
Food Safety Group Sues Ag Department for FOIA'd Records on GMO Crops
The Center for Food Safety has sued the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service under the Freedom of Information Act for withholding information on genetically modified crops (GMOs), after unsuccessfully seeking information over a period of 13 years.
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"U.S. Regulator Sued for Withholding Information on GMO Crops"
"A food safety advocacy group sued an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday, saying it illegally withheld public information on genetically engineered crops."
Source: Reuters, 08/26/2015
"Big Food is Spending Millions to Lobby for Less Transparency"
"From GMO labeling to pesticides to the source of the meat you buy, a handful of companies are spending heavily to keep information off your food labels."
Source: Civil Eats, 08/26/2015
"California Dam Lets Water Shared by Farms Flow to Salmon"
"With water scarce in Northern California’s Klamath Basin, a federal agency is again releasing water into the Klamath River to prevent a repeat of the 2002 fish kill that left tens of thousands of adult salmon dead."
Source: AP, 08/25/2015
"How California’s Pesticide Regulator Spun a Concerned Community"
California's Department of Pesticide Regulation gave Ventura County residents a misleading story about why it had allowed cancer-causing pesticide to be used by strawberry farmers near a local high school.
Source: Reveal (CIR), 08/25/2015
"The American Lawn Is Now The Largest Single 'Crop' In The U.S."
"Americans’ lawns now cover an area three times larger than any irrigated crop in the U.S."
Source: Fusion, 08/24/2015
Pesticides: "Hawaii's Spike in Birth Defects Puts Focus on GM Crops"
"Local doctors are in the eye of a storm swirling for the past three years over whether corn that’s been genetically modified to resist pesticides is a source of prosperity, as companies claim, or of birth defects and illnesses".
Source: Guardian, 08/24/2015
"Pesticides Blamed for Bee Declines Widespread in US Waterways"
"Expert says neonicotinoids, even at EPA’s ‘safe’ levels, could devastate aquatic invertebrates: ‘The water issue is probably as important as the pollinators’"
Source: Guardian, 08/21/2015
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