ELR Citation: ELR 20219
No(s). 08-00484 (N.D. Cal. Sep 21, 2009)

A district court held that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) violated NEPA in its decision to deregulate a variety of genetically engineered sugar beets. Sugar beets are pollinated by both wind and insects, and scientists have documented that sugar beet pollen can disperse up to...