Trump’s USDA Gambles America’s Forests on a Defective GMO Chestnut Tree

On August 20, the U.S. Department of Agriculture made the unprecedented decision to deregulate a transgenic American chestnut, Darling 54 (D54), genetically modified to contain oxalic oxidase (OxO), an enzyme from wheat, to resist the chestnut blight fungus. The D54 deregulation petition was…