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Environmental Commons: How Preemptive Seed Legislation is Destroying Democracy
Farm Bureau members. Also a farmer, Iowa Representative Mark Kuhn who led the opposition to Iowa's seed preemption bill stated, "It is ... Dale Dewitt, the representative who introduced their seed preemption bill, used virtually identical language when explaining the reasoning behind their bill. Laws establishing preemption are not a new industry strategy. From ...
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Environmental Commons: Attempt to strip local authority over seeds and plants fails in California legislature
Local Control saw the introduction of a seed preemption bill as a direct threat to community democracy. Senate Bill 1009, commonly called "The Seed Bill" would have stripped the power of ... and Michigan Townships Association, SB777 became law. Although the bill passed, it does include language modeled after the pesticide preemption bill that allows local governments to pass ordinances if there are ...
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Say No To GMOs! - April 2005
Iowa receives campaign contributions from the Iowa Farm Bureau, Monsanto, Iowa Agribusiness Employees, and John Deere.1 North Dakota's Representatives who introduced and carried their preemptive seed bill ... sector of our crops." Supporters of this bill include the Georgia Agribusiness Council and the State Farm Bureau. Laws establishing preemption are not a new industry strategy. ...
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Say No To GMOs! - December 2006
Local Control saw the introduction of a seed preemption bill as a direct threat to community democracy. Senate Bill 1009, commonly called "The Seed Bill" would have stripped the power of ... and Michigan Townships Association, SB777 became law. Although the bill passed, it does include language modeled after the pesticide preemption bill that allows local governments to pass ordinances if there are ...
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New Rules Project - Information Sector
Courts have repeatedly ruled that the franchise fee is a fee imposed on the provider ... ensure Wireless Philadelphia a portion of all network revenues, barring an outright state or federal preemption of such agreements. The city made significant sacrifices in return for not having to invest ...
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The Center for Food Safety - Contact Us
SAFETY AND CONSUMERS UNION CHALLENGE GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER'S VETO OF CLONED FOOD BILL ON FEDERAL PREEMPTION GROUNDS COALITION OF MORE THAN 40 GROUPS SIGN LETTER URGING THAT "USDA ... Engineered Food Genetically Engineered Crops California Food and Agriculture Report Card: Genetic Engineering Preemption Toolkit Monsanto vs. U.S. Farmers Report Legal Actions, continued Genetic Engineering Directory ...
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The Center for Food Safety - Policy Comments
Specter Amendment in Farm Bill! November 14, 2007 CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY AND CONSUMERS UNION CHALLENGE GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER'S VETO OF CLONED FOOD BILL ON FEDERAL PREEMPTION GROUNDS November 9, 2007 CFS and allies support Mikulski-Specter amendment in the farm bill to stop animal cloning Read the ...
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Molecular Pharming – the New Battlefront
The North Carolina legislature is considering “preemption” bills intended to block local regulation of crop plants, including biotech crops. The bills, House Bill 671 and Senate Bill 631, were sponsored by the biotech ...
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League for the Hard of Hearing > Education, Advocacy & Outreach
Office of Noise Abatement and Control, but it is President Bill Clinton who has decided to keep this office shut. Otherwise, ... cites a case in which the federal government's right of preemption was overruled and the state was declared to have the right ... local authorities to look to the law before accepting industry claims of preemption. Apparently states have more rights than they know they have. A ...
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Take Action - Pesticide Watch
Help pass resolutions supporting local control and make calls immediately to support Assembly Bill 977, introduced by Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, that overturns the state law which prohibits local ... control on pesticides. The bill will be heard by the Senate Environmental Quality Committee August 6 @ 11am. ACT TODAY! Help build a movement to overturn pesticide preemption and take back local ...
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