Laying the gauntlet at EPA's door; The race to nowhere

OXFORD - Officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have rejected allegations, made by a trans-Atlantic coalition of advocacy groups led by Greenpeace International (Hamburg, Germany) that the EPA has violated federal laws relating to the approval of genetically modified crops.

Greenpeace and more than 30 other groups have filed a petition with EPA that accuses the agency of threatening organic agriculture by approving transgenic plants expressing the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin gene, as well as violating numerous federal laws and regulations...