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For Immediate Release, July 1, 2010
Contacts:
Marc Fink, Center for Biological Diversity, (218) 525-3884
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Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project, (802) 578-0477
Lawsuit Filed to Halt Release of Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Trees
Across the American South
FORT PIERCE, Fla.- An alliance of conservation organizations today sued [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2bo1P13S0Md-e__pdK6OtMM6ppOA4Rw6WHjD2B-puYK6Jd1jmrpu1Lw3mkDUpEMPxBGIdgtme8ZfO2CTv2rcVmRrMVybzgZpQ2YoD3CU6aXRl5IVfjlf4aTFye88dDh1uo8I20PvtCZ8IruXJqXqKNOAN5T3tB3RAhd6SHYrSMRM2PtG7NIOH0V6sgYdwr999KdxJ8pG3NMLu2WfEJoLPnZ]the
U.S. Department of Agriculture over its approval of open-air field
tests of a genetically engineered (GE) hybrid of eucalyptus tree across
the southern United States. The permit, issued to a company called
ArborGen, which is a joint initiative of International Paper,
MeadWestvaco and Rubicon, was approved May 12 with minimal
environmental review. It authorizes the experimental planting and
flowering of a new, genetically engineered hybrid on 28 secret sites
across seven southern states - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.
"In
refusing to prepare a detailed environmental review, the Department of
Agriculture ignored serious risks before permitting this action," said
Marc Fink, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.
"Federal agencies can't be allowed to neglect their duty to the public
trust. Once this genie is out of the bottle and escapes to neighboring
lands, it's irreversible."
ArborGen hopes its GE "cold-tolerant" Eucalyptuswill become widely planted for
pulp and biomass. But eucalyptus trees
are not native to the United States and are known to become invasive,
displacing native wildlife and plants in various areas around the
country and increasing wildfire risk. "Releasing GE cold-tolerant Eucalyptustrees
into the wild in multiple states greatly increases the risk they
will spread uncontrollably throughout the region," said Dr. Neil Carman
of the Sierra Club.
In
approving the GE eucalyptus permits, the Department of Agriculture
ignored the concerns of numerous agencies and scientists, including the
Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the Florida Exotic Pest
Plant Council, which formally criticized the proposed open field tests
of these genetically engineered trees.
In
addition to approving these test sites, Agriculture is also considering
a "deregulation" petition submitted by ArborGen that would allow
widespread commercial planting of GE Eucalyptus without any limits or regulation.
According to the U.S. Forest Service, GE Eucalyptusplantations in the southern United
States would use more than twice the
water of pine plantations in a region already suffering from a depleted
water supply.
"These
tests include planting over a quarter of a million genetically
engineered eucalyptus trees along the Gulf Coast and into South
Carolina," said Anne Petermann of Global Justice Ecology Project and
the STOP GE Trees Campaign. "Ultimately they plan to produce up to half
a billion GE eucalyptus seedlings annually for planting across the U.S.
South. This would be another disaster for these beleaguered Gulf Coast
states, leading to a loss of native forests and biodiversity, depleting
ground water and worsening climate change."
The Government Accountability Office [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2bqu_u-lyMwEsK-tpIUNeVB02TPDnCE_8PIwpnOrAhxODulw7mfv-o7GHS_243Yme8g63sMSq9X44k2YJiC2wS2zqw4rgNglQbT68O1iEut4ymnnHBFu8TPhiZ8x5MQaHE=]
and USDA inspector general [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2ZeoPc9M4EWPglSRWl2coKKVPzfOPMENIidnEEhjwsny7K9gHGXFLJ6KcAgV1UAfMJZp00iL3LvLUJlwDHKbf3AOqIzipBGQvm0zx1QwpGXgLWxVd7oM1Yq-v2uoTpea1VbYhB-XRd_wg==]have
both issued sharply critical reports on the USDA's management of
genetically engineered organism (GMO) field tests. In 2006, a GE rice field test
[http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2ZHVtWf2V0iD6SfUJRVM2bJWiKmj1SgSaX7az397Im6XFcxxAgZeJPbl-ss2PQH7YoooJbnY-71cMngEhDrKK4yJNfRR7VtRRe9eFsDnrTRGEVLfmuHpaRzgEXapdeVezh-xTnzymubI54khsdRRgQPxOdsQPOWw_Bcic1fUWpvvT-EbAVYpBaqAW7ox8JidadaNU6LkOy4mg==]contaminated
southern U.S. long-grain rice fields, causing billions in
losses to farmers; in 2007, a federal court found that a GE bentgrass field test
[http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2aNvWw4LwXrdsYZ0lsLiPpgL7poi5a1nk-kjpz0kyXWjWJH7AJSU7oFBvpHdQqK2jolgrRXa1ekhSt_kx0X_kDXJg2hhPVz5KmgPuBokoblr9nYS99ZpgB4wzFen1UBbcNSbFl1DNNdUfivNXJFfbWz8UFNrSKKOInqs-ula0lg6-l6Z3Njrs0WJSu2AWBl1G4=]had
contaminated a protected national grassland in Oregon. "The
Department of Agriculture continues to tell the public that no further
restrictions are needed on these novel organisms," said George
Kimbrell, an attorney for the plaintiffs. "In light of history, their
empty promises here ring hollow."
"Over
the last generation the people of the South have watched the forests of
our region destroyed by industrial forestry, impacting our water
quality, wildlife habitat and quality of life," said Scot Quaranda of
Dogwood Alliance. "The federal government's decision to approve the use
of GE Eucalyptustrees in our region will open the door to further exploitation of
the
people and forests of the South. This decision must be overturned."
The
organizations are represented by attorneys Marc Fink of the Center for
Biological Diversity, George Kimbrell of the International Center for
Technology Assessment and the Center for Food Safety, and Jeanne Marie
Zokovitch Paben, director of the Earth Advocacy Clinic at Barry
University School of Law.
To read comments submitted by Georgia Department of Natural Resources, click
here [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2YsYzhPz0rV7Da9oqJqjPwLqk1-6_TBu36rlJyRcBDMRwiR72cCl-fMoCEdIvUX22utEhzHdbxxzgdJZjhsBS3cH3a0MmB3raC8JbkVfEfNTkAoAJk30tXqTOR2wFolT8NUIUWWrXGR3LLovUNikchzGVmgDlRA1AKOnJ_0uMBPLIDXVhrQuRRwunKdP_oin3skfdc5bvBMZggkpxufFfDpqutGGYq_XTKDetaClPDheA==].
To read comments submitted by the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council, click here
[http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2aDH372L4dKslR-RfstuhE_FV8cFYDmvL3iRd68cSeeZArrMb6uVYatMAlYYkIU9wW4T5G8X86MjvIXfHFbVOqFvNn55WtFqIMbdmnUF26DCYuIo2nmUeBjz2LJutZBP5KSVkHq8gc7aJ-Xi8yVWD97prLodxbWFbnK5o3BK_kiw8h-4g2n9Ys-AE80P62X96KLUXdmpwgO4RD-lvXao6uOfFa-ByzIJKxVXiuz69hL2w==].
The organizations that filed suit today are the Center for Biological Diversity
[http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2ZQl9g9rFGgl31G0QdfiH44C2G4zuckO4x6jyDDW0O9yqF4u5q5ur2WKDcFXSrJF9YL14n_e1PVeQlPhNWsU8Uh9WOjdOPrmpVwXe8Itw2VnwlbSRssyh2B],
Sierra Club [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2Zf5RMrAuHuCYnLMx_HMue6A5BVJ8-evFClN_Ah9J65bT-YolfBL-1UhIXAr2LioJFCPvQG0hUlwMp0NnuGYx1NDKW9lTrgRVu2Gd1yTU6jog==],
Dogwood Alliance [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2aMKTFvojiHnDsjTX0HLyJeu_pFlwsAhodxWZUCiDj7QNaAYeYCmoo9-6_-D-cAj45ZsXs9c1Te00_PHX-nSe4a_U0Ue_Vis2Zg41qVGD7qrfkHmL7gx-Ly],
International Center for Technology Assessment [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2YHtKigBgY7AVsP_qEVT2D6W27IQTrcErwY-qVPNVJTOhwuD3TEOkYmFWO1hz8xnd9a0j7GZrAIB6qmYHTlBub9TCx3BdFxOds8Bhuw2j66PYeVsuIKafefg8QSkFIHh7c=],
Center for Food Safety [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2ZNK_9e06Fo9n_h2CUaXXz4Ysi6e8OItvzkwAujEEEiDVyxOIeQ6hsy-HEo5V_7FOgN5GF4mhM9-JlL_I3nVWDlXrSYns2FtafSqW3SvU-xq6uyc5K1_y8G]
and Global Justice Ecology Project [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103532378675&s=2054&e=001ClQwltcvK2bnNEjNEPg8NEMKXhFQlLt14q6C0DX50LmcSNY2TFw79q19cw31NZ5klxuqm0f2HTfXvH9O3ZgfHc150weG2P6uNUf_P0ppfNry83oEhd0CuCD0g-rez9mg].
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the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its approval of open-air field
tests of a genetically engineered (GE) hybrid of eucalyptus tree across
the southern United States. The permit, issued to a company called
ArborGen, which is a joint initiative of International Paper,
MeadWestvaco and Rubicon, was approved May 12 with minimal
environmental review. It authorizes the experimental planting and
flowering of a new, genetically engineered hybrid on 28 secret sites
across seven southern states - Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.</span></font></p>
<p><font style=3D"font-size: 10pt;" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-siz=
e: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">"In
refusing to prepare a detailed environmental review, the Department of
Agriculture ignored serious risks before permitting this action," said
Marc Fink, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.
"Federal agencies can't be allowed to neglect their duty to the public
trust. Once this genie is out of the bottle and escapes to neighboring
lands, it's irreversible." </span></font></p>
<p><font style=3D"font-size: 10pt;" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-siz=
e: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">ArborGen hopes its GE "cold-tolerant" <e=
m><span style=3D"font-style: italic;">Eucalyptus</span></em>
will become widely planted for pulp and biomass. But eucalyptus trees
are not native to the United States and are known to become invasive,
displacing native wildlife and plants in various areas around the
country and increasing wildfire risk. "Releasing GE cold-tolerant <em><spa=
n style=3D"font-style: italic;">Eucalyptus</span></em>
trees into the wild in multiple states greatly increases the risk they
will spread uncontrollably throughout the region," said Dr. Neil Carman
of the Sierra Club.</span></font></p>
<p><font style=3D"font-size: 10pt;" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-siz=
e: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In
approving the GE eucalyptus permits, the Department of Agriculture
ignored the concerns of numerous agencies and scientists, including the
Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the Florida Exotic Pest
Plant Council, which formally criticized the proposed open field tests
of these genetically engineered trees.</span></font></p>
<p><font style=3D"font-size: 10pt;" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-siz=
e: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In
addition to approving these test sites, Agriculture is also considering
a "deregulation" petition submitted by ArborGen that would allow
widespread commercial planting of GE <em><span style=3D"font-style: italic=
;">Eucalyptus</span></em> without any limits or regulation. According=
to the U.S. Forest Service, GE <em><span style=3D"font-style: italic;">Eu=
calyptus</span></em>
plantations in the southern United States would use more than twice the
water of pine plantations in a region already suffering from a depleted
water supply. </span></font></p>
<p><font style=3D"font-size: 10pt;" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-siz=
e: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">"These
tests include planting over a quarter of a million genetically
engineered eucalyptus trees along the Gulf Coast and into South
Carolina," said Anne Petermann of Global Justice Ecology Project and
the STOP GE Trees Campaign. "Ultimately they plan to produce up to half
a billion GE eucalyptus seedlings annually for planting across the U.S.
South. This would be another disaster for these beleaguered Gulf Coast
states, leading to a loss of native forests and biodiversity, depleting
ground water and worsening climate change."</span></font></p>
<p><font style=3D"font-size: 10pt;" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-siz=
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an style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">
have both issued sharply critical reports on the USDA's management of
genetically engineered organism (GMO) field tests. In 2006, a </span></fon=
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contaminated southern U.S. long-grain rice fields, causing billions in
losses to farmers; in 2007, a federal court found that a </span></font><a=
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had contaminated a protected national grassland in Oregon. "The
Department of Agriculture continues to tell the public that no further
restrictions are needed on these novel organisms," said George
Kimbrell, an attorney for the plaintiffs. "In light of history, their
empty promises here ring hollow." </span></font></p>
<p><font style=3D"font-size: 10pt;" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-siz=
e: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">"Over
the last generation the people of the South have watched the forests of
our region destroyed by industrial forestry, impacting our water
quality, wildlife habitat and quality of life," said Scot Quaranda of
Dogwood Alliance. "The federal government's decision to approve the use
of GE <em><span style=3D"font-style: italic;">Eucalyptus</span></em>
trees in our region will open the door to further exploitation of the
people and forests of the South. This decision must be overturned."</span>=
</font></p>
<p><font style=3D"font-size: 10pt;" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-siz=
e: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The
organizations are represented by attorneys Marc Fink of the Center for
Biological Diversity, George Kimbrell of the International Center for
Technology Assessment and the Center for Food Safety, and Jeanne Marie
Zokovitch Paben, director of the Earth Advocacy Clinic at Barry
University School of Law.</span></font></p>
<p><font style=3D"font-size: 10pt;" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-siz=
e: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">To read comments submitted by Georgia De=
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<p><font style=3D"font-size: 10pt;" face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"font-siz=
e: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">To read comments submitted by the Florida Ex=
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