{"id":5797,"date":"2011-08-16T02:16:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T06:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2011-08-16T02:16:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T06:16:10","slug":"groups-sue-to-halt-ge-crops-on-southeastern-national-wildlife-refuges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2011\/08\/groups-sue-to-halt-ge-crops-on-southeastern-national-wildlife-refuges\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups Sue to Halt GE Crops on Southeastern National Wildlife Refuges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, August 16, 2011) A lawsuit filed in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/gmos\/index.htm\">genetically engineered<\/a> (GE) crops on twenty-five national wildlife refuges across the U.S. Southeast. The suit is the latest step in a campaign to banish GE crops from all refuges. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on August 12, 2011 by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the Center for Food Safety (CFS), and Beyond Pesticides, the federal suit charges that FWS unlawfully entered into cooperative farming agreements and approved planting of GE crops in eight states without the environmental review required by the <em>National Environmental Policy Act<\/em> (NEPA) and in violation of FWS policy. <\/p>\n<p>This is the third in a series of lawsuits filed by CFS and PEER challenging FWS\u2019s practice of permitting GE crops on wildlife refuges. In 2009 and 2010, the groups successfully challenged approval of GE plantings on two wildlife refuges in Delaware \u2014 Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge and Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge \u2014 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=4846\">forced FWS<\/a> to end GE planting in the entire 12-state Northeastern region.<\/p>\n<p>National wildlife refuges have allowed farming for decades despite the interference by farming with the protection of wildlife and native grasses. In recent years, refuge farming has been converted to GE crops because the agency claims GE seed is the only seed farmers can obtain today. These GE crops are mostly engineered for a single purpose: to be resistant to herbicides, mainly Monsanto\u2019s ubiquitous Roundup. Because the crops are immune, their usage leads to more frequent applications and increased amounts of toxic herbicides. This overreliance on herbicides used in GE cropping systems has fostered an epidemic of herbicide-resistant \u201csuperweeds\u201d in the past decade as weeds have mutated, similar to antibiotic resistance. Farming of GE crops has also led to the uncontrolled spread of the engineered DNA to conventional, organic crops or wild relatives, contaminating the wild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGE crops are the last thing that should be introduced onto a national wildlife refuge,\u201d stated PEER Counsel Kit Douglas, who has also filed cases under the Freedom of Information Act seeking detailed information about the Obama \u201cWhite House Agricultural Biotechnology Working Group\u201d which is working to promote planting GE crops on National Wildlife Refuges. \u201cUnder high-level pressure, the Fish &#038; Wildlife Service has to abandon wildlife biology to practice political science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have warned that these engineered, herbicide-resistant crops lead to increased pesticide use on refuges and can have other negative effects on birds, aquatic animals, and other wildlife. In the Prime Hook case, Federal District Court Chief Judge Gregory Sleet found that \u201cit is undisputed that farming with genetically modified crops at Prime Hook poses significant environmental risks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese genetically engineered crops are engineered by chemical companies like Monsanto for one purpose: to promote indiscriminate herbicide use and sell more of their herbicides,\u201d said Paige Tomaselli, Staff Attorney with the Center for Food Safety. \u201cDousing wildlife refuges with herbicides harms wildlife, damages biodiversity, and otherwise undermines the underlying significance of refuges: to serve as a safe haven for wildlife. These herbicide-promoting crops have absolutely no place on our protected national lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If successful, the suit will enjoin the cultivation of GE crops in the Southeast Region until and unless a new approval decision is made based on a rigorous review of all potential impacts in an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), as required by NEPA. Meanwhile, unless practices and DOI policy on the refuges change, PEER and CFS will continue to challenge the cultivation of GE crops on refuges across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In another case involving GE crops, attorneys for CFS, Earthjustice, Beyond Pesticides, and others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=5106\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> against USDA in March 2011, arguing that the agency\u2019s unrestricted approval of GE \u201cRoundup Ready\u201d alfalfa violates the <em>Endangered Species Act<\/em>. USDA announced plans to fully deregulate GE alfalfa in January, despite contamination risks it poses to both organic and conventional farmers. <\/p>\n<p>For more news and information, see Beyond Pesticides\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/gmos\/index.htm\">genetic engineering page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforfoodsafety.org\/2011\/08\/12\/lawsuit-to-halt-ge-crops-on-southeastern-refuges-genetically-engineered-crops-on-25-refuges-in-8-states-are-illegal\/\">Center for Food Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, August 16, 2011) A lawsuit filed in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) crops on twenty-five national wildlife refuges across the U.S. Southeast. The suit is the latest step in a campaign to banish GE crops from all refuges. 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By forging ties with governments, nonprofits, and people who rely on these natural resources, we reduce the need for unnecessary pesticide use and protect public health and the environment. Beyond Pesticides provides hands-on services to the public and supports local action by: identifying and interpreting hazards; and, designing safe pest management programs. With the information provided by Beyond Pesticides, people may not only be able to make informed choices and adopt practices that protect themselves and their families from unnecessary exposure to pesticides, but they will be able to effect changes on community-wide pest management decisions and policies that govern pesticide use, such as pesticide uses in parks, schools, for community insect control and along roadsides. 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