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Nearly all cash crops in U.S. are genetically engineered now

More than 90 percent of all corn, cotton and soybeans planted in the U.S. are genetically engineered, according to data from the Department of Agriculture.
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Explainer: Everything you need to know about Canada's new laws for GMOs and gene editing

New gene-edited plants and food products may soon be on the market in Canada without regulatory oversight due to proposed changes to Canada’s risk assessment for food and plants.
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Climate

What the future of farming will look like: UN Agnes Kalibata

As the world population grows, the climate heats up and resources become more scarce, how will we ensure we have enough food to go around?

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www.independent.ie
Toxics

France backs non-GMO regulation for crop gene-editing in EU

France sees crops developed using gene-editing techniques as different to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and opposes a European Union court decision to put them under strict GMO regulations, the country's agriculture minister said.
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www.politico.com
Food

11th-hour deal strips FDA oversight of genetically modified animals

This is the latest instance of Trump political appointees overriding the agency's scientists.
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www.vqronline.org
Toxics

She stakes her claim

A new American dream stirs on a Georgia homestead.

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Justice

Meet the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize winners

This year marks the 31st anniversary of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize, which honors one grassroot activist from each of the six inhabited continents.

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www.politico.eu
Toxics

US says EU’s farm plans risk global famine

American agriculture official complains that EU and UK continue to ‘diss’ the US on its food standards.
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Justice

A judge just dismissed efforts to stop pesticides and GMO crops from being used in wildlife refuges

Salon spoke with experts who discussed the ecological consequences of the federal court's decision.

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www.cjr.org
Water

Journalism’s Gates keepers

As philanthropists increasingly fill in the funding gaps at news organizations—a role that is almost certain to expand in the media downturn following the coronavirus pandemic—an underexamined worry is how this will affect the ways newsrooms report on their benefactors. Nowhere does this concern loom larger than with the Gates Foundation.

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Toxics

Florida Keys to be first in U.S. to launch modified mosquito trial

A geographic location has yet to be identified, and the trial will begin after Jan. 1, 2021.

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www.sciencemag.org
Food

United States relaxes rules for biotech crops

A major change to U.S. regulation of biotech will exempt some gene-edited plants from government oversight.

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www.seattlepi.com
Justice

Wash. state Supreme Court reinstates $18 million penalty against Grocery Manufacturers Association

The Washington state Supreme Court has reinstated a whopping $18 million judgment and penalty against one of America's most powerful corporate lobbies, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, for intentionally shielding names of food companies contributing millions to defeat a Washington ballot initiative.

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Climate

GMOs are an ally in a changing climate

If we want to feed a growing population without fueling global warming, we need to redefine what we think of as good food.
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www.nytimes.com
Toxics

Superfund, meet super plants

Can the plant microbiome help clean up contaminated land?
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U.S. Steel abandons clean tech plans in Pittsburgh region following damning health study

The company scraps planned Pennsylvania investments and will instead shut down three polluting batteries in 2023. The announcement comes a week after a study shows lower lung function in people living near its Pittsburgh-region facility.

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EHN talked to marine disease experts about the role of increasing ocean protection in combating rising disease rates.

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