Jul. 21, 2010 / Posted by: Ian Illuminato / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
WASHINGTON, DC –For the first time in 70 years, Congress is poised to close the gaping holes in the outdated federal law that allows chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities and other illnesses in the products we use ...
Read More »Jul. 14, 2010 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
A leading scientist in the controversial field of synthetic biology and oil giant Exxon Mobil announced today that they are opening a greenhouse in San Diego, California, to grow synthetic algae to produce fuel.
Read More »Jun. 16, 2010 / Posted by: Ian Illuminato / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
Washington, D.C.—The environmental watchdog group Friends of the Earth announced today that it has launched a summer advertising and public education campaign intended to alert the public to the risks posed by nanosunscreens.
Read More »May. 20, 2010 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
Washington, DC -- Today, the J. Craig Venter Institute announced the creation of the first living organism with an entirely synthetic genome.
Read More »Mar. 30, 2010 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. District Court of New York held yesterday in Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, et al. that patents on human genes that correlate with increased risk for breast cancer an...
Read More »Feb. 2, 2010 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
NEW YORK CITY—The American Civil Liberties Union’s challenge of patents on two human genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer goes to trial here today.
Read More »Sep. 21, 2009 / Posted by: RConnors / Categories: Climate and Energy, Food and Technology, News Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kate McMahon, 202-222-0715, kmcmahon@foe.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Humane Society of the United States and a coalition of environmental and public health organizations filed a legal petition with the Environ...
Read More »Sep. 17, 2009 / Posted by: NBerning / Categories: Advocacy, Climate and Energy, Economics for the Earth, Food and Technology, News Releases, Oceans and Forests
Nationally recognized policy expert now leads progressive environmental group known for speaking truth to power Brent Blackwelder, longest-serving environmental advocate in Washington, retires Washington, D.C.—Erich Pica, a nationally recogn...
Read More »Aug. 19, 2009 / Posted by: NBerning / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Ian Illuminato, Friends of the Earth, 250-478-7135, iilluminato@foe.org George Kimbrell, International Center for Technology Assessment, 571-527-8618, gkimbrell@icta.org Michael Hansen, Consumers Union, 914-378-2452,...
Read More »Nov. 5, 2008 / Posted by: Nick Berning / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
WASHINGTON—The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly expected to lift a voluntary ban on potentially unsafe cloned meat and dairy products in the human food supply as soon as this week. This move directly contradicts congressional legis...
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