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More than 220 federal complaints have been filed against Monsanto in the past six days in San Francisco alone, from people who claim it failed to warn them that its Roundup weed-killer can cause non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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US Won’t Approve Labels That Say Glyphosate Causes Cancer
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said it will no longer approve warning labels that claim the controversial herbicide glyphosate causes cancer, calling the statement “false and misleading.”
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Ninth Circuit Asked to Review EPA Refusal to Ban Pesticide
An environmental group asked the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s refusal to ban a dangerous pesticide the group says is endangering the nation’s children.
Read moreJudge Slashes Couple’s Award in Roundup Cancer Case
Alva and Alberta Pilliod, a Livermore couple who attributed their cancer diagnoses to years of Roundup use, will see only a fraction of the $2 billion in punitive damages a jury awarded them in May. A state trial judge cut their award down considerably in an order Thursday to a total of $86.7 million, which breaks down to about $30 million for Alva and $56 million for Alberta.
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EPA Declines Ban of Pesticide That’s Toxic to Children
A popular pesticide shown to be particularly toxic to children can continue to be used on commercial crops, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.
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Plant Probe May Help Estimate Bees’ Exposure to Pesticides
Pesticides are killing off bee populations across the globe, and it is a major concern for lawmakers and environmental advocates – and a major threat to the food chain.
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Chiquita Brands should not be excluded from the Ecuadorean portion of a mass tort complaint involving workers’ exposure to toxic pesticides on banana plantations in Central America, a federal magistrate recommended.
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A federal judge advanced most claims that Monsanto’s dicamba herbicide caused an “ecological disaster” when it drifted and ruined crops.
Read moreDDT Still Wreaking Havoc on Lakes, 50 Years After Ban
The harmful effects of DDT are still being felt decades after the pesticide was banned in several countries, according to a new study.
Read moreUS Lags Way Behind in Banning Harmful Pesticides
Farmers in the United States use 72 pesticides banned in the European Union, 17 agricultural substances outlawed in China and 11 pesticides no longer allowed in Brazil, the Center for Biological Diversity revealed in research published Thursday.
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New Mexico hit Monsanto, Pharmacia and Solutia with a 261-page lawsuit, claiming they made and sold products containing PCBs though Monsanto knew as early as 1937 that it was polluting the state’s soil and water.
Read moreMonsanto Wins Chance to Pick Venue for Upcoming Roundup Trials
In a win for Monsanto following more than $2 billion in cancer-trial losses in California against the company’s popular weed killer Roundup, the federal judge overseeing nationwide litigation over the product said Wednesday Monsanto can choose where upcoming cases will be tried.
Read moreResearch on Children’s Health Imperiled by EPA
Long-running research projects credited with pivotal discoveries about the harm that pesticides, air pollution and other hazards pose to children are in jeopardy or shutting down because the Environmental Protection Agency will not commit to their continued funding, researchers say.
Read moreJudge in Roundup Cancer Trial Urges Lid on Closing Theatrics
At a hearing Tuesday ahead of closing arguments in the third jury trial over whether Monsanto’s best-selling weed killer Roundup causes cancer, the judge in the case urged lawyers for a couple suing for punitive damages to keep the drama to a minimum.
Read moreCancers Plateaued as Roundup Use Grew, Jury Hears
Alva Pilliod’s lymphoma likely had no known cause, but his singularly abnormal immune system allowed it to flourish, an oncologist testified Monday in the latest trial over whether Monsanto’s top-selling weed killer Roundup causes cancer.
Read moreEPA Says Widely Used Herbicide Does Not Cause Cancer
The Environmental Protection Agency reaffirmed Tuesday its previous finding that the mostly widely used herbicide in the country does not cause cancer.
Read moreExpert: Human Body Good at Repelling – and Expelling – Roundup
An industrial hygienist hired by Monsanto faced off Tuesday against the lead attorney for a couple claiming decades of Roundup use contributed significantly to them both developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Read moreExpert Claims Couple Can’t Blame Weed Killer for Cancer
oundup did not cause Alberta Pilliod’s cancer and we’ll likely never know what did, a hematologist from the Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida told jurors Monday at the start of Monsanto’s defense against the woman’s claims that the weed killer made her sick.
Read moreMonsanto Asks for Dismissal in Roundup Cancer Trial
A California judge said Thursday that she will likely deny Monsanto’s motion for a decisive victory in a trial where a Livermore couple attribute their cancer to decades of Roundup use.
Read moreWild Tomatoes May Hold Key to Reducing Pesticide Use
Researchers studying wild tomato plants in Peru have found understanding the plants’ evolutionary defense mechanisms could reveal the key to reducing pesticide use worldwide.
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