Introduction of New Genetically Engineered Wheat Tied to Dangerous Pattern of Hazardous Pesticide Use - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, March 16, 2026) On the brink of the first genetically engineered (GE) wheat to be introduced into the U.S. market, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved it in August, 2024, groups are calling on Congress to instruct USDA to prohibit HB4 wheat and instruct EPA to prohibit the use of glufosinate herbicides on wheat. The herbicide on which the crop is dependent, glufosinate, is a highly toxic herbicide banned in the European Union because of its links to reproductive and developmental harm. The drought- and herbicide-tolerant wheat, known as HB4 GMO...

On the brink of the first #GE #wheat to be introduced into the U.S., groups are calling on Congress to instruct #USDA to prohibit it and instruct #EPA to prohibit the use of #glufosinate #herbicides on wheat. #hb4 #dailynews 📣 Take Action: https://ow.ly/p2pU50YuLCb ➡️ Blog: https://ow.ly/QWof50YuLCe

➡️ In addition to this action, please consider adding your name to a #petition opposing #GMO #hb4 #wheat being sent to major food processors and mills: ow.ly/g9LV50YtOhB

Please share! Distributed in collaboration with @foeus.bsky.social and a coalition of like-minded orgs, please consider signing a #petition that asks major food processors to #reject the use of #GMO #HB4 #wheat — grown with the highly toxic weed killer #glufosinate.

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oh, no! Phil King is having a PTSD over Gutierrez asking him questions about his efforts to shield law enforcement from accountability. he is askeered of now answering Gutierrez questions on #HB4. he clearly needs to take a sabbatical from being a senator now. #txlege

Live on the Senate floor for the Second Called Special Session starting with HB 4, the redistricting bill.

▪️Follow along here: senate.texas.gov/av-live.php

#txlege #redistricting #HB4

Just scrolling through the news, sighing deeper & louder with every news post.

Whimpers of despair. Numb. Frozen.

Darting, panicky thoughts about needing a passport ID card as a secondary backup.

Quiet hyperventilating FURY.

MY (liberal-ish?) DISTRICT is one of them! #TxLege #HB4 #Gerrymander

#Resist #hb4 #texas #handsoff #50501movement #nokings #Action

Texas House passes #HB4 racist & partisan Gerrymandering on 3nd reading.

#Txlege

We are now on the third reading of the bill. Texas Republicans moving at lightning speed to pass this fully today in the House. #HB4

Now they're doing the 3rd and final #HB4 reading.
Last chance for amendments and corrections.

CORRECTION: Bill has NOT yet passed. #HB4

YEA 88 NAY 52 PNV. 0 HB 4

Texas House passes #HB4 racist & partisan Gerrymandering on 2nd reading.
#Txlege

After vote, #HB4 (the redistricting bill) gets initial passage in the Texas House

A very heated exchange happening now between Rep. Nicole Collier and Chairman Rep. Todd Hunter. Collier was booed when she noted that during slavery Blacks fled. Hunter is also repeatedly accusing her of interrupting. #HB4

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Current #HB4 speaker is admitting the partisan Gerrymandering. #Txlege