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Courts may suspend additional glyphosate trials as Bayer, plaintiffs negotiate possible settlement

Carey Gillam | 
Discussions are underway to postpone one or more highly anticipated Roundup cancer trials set to start in January, including trials ...
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With Enlist, biotech firm Corteva aims to displace Roundup as top-selling herbicide as Bayer fights glyphosate litigation

Jacob Bunge | 
Before it was targeted by tens of thousands of plaintiffs in lawsuits, Roundup was the king of the field—the world’s ...
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GMO cotton boosted farmer incomes $52 billion over 20 years, study finds

The area planted to biotech cotton in 2018 reached 24.9 million hectares, a 3% increase from 24.1 million hectares in ...
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Canadian judge rejects activist bid to immediately ban neonicotinoid pesticide Thiamethoxam

Alex Binkley | 
Ottawa-Federal Appeal Court Justice Richard Southcott has dismissed an application by environment groups challenging a 24 month phase out of ...
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Agriculture companies accelerate biopesticide development amid consumer pressure for less chemical-intensive farming

Lydia Mulvany, Susan Decker | 
Agribusiness is increasingly turning to natural and sustainable alternatives to chemicals as consumers rebuff genetically modified foods and concerns grow ...
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Viewpoint: Confused about GMOs and pesticides? Here’s a science-based handbook for combating anti-biotech fallacies

Stuart Smyth | 
The risk posed by junk science meant to skew our perception of food safety and biotechnology cannot be overstated ...
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Viewpoint: Bill banning neonicotinoid insecticides from wildlife refuges based on bad science

Paul Driessen | 
The House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources recently approved HR 2854, the 2019 Protect Our Refuges Act, prohibiting the ...
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EPA re-approves controversial weed killer atrazine, arguing benefits outweigh potential ecological risks

Emily Unglesbee | 
Atrazine is widely used in agriculture across a range of crops, primarily corn but also sugarcane and sorghum, as well ...
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Anti-glyphosate activist Carey Gillam ‘collaborated’ with attorney charged in extortion plot

Alex Berezow | 
In a press release, the [Department of Justice] said that one of the lead plaintiffs' attorneys, Timothy Litzenburg, who helped ...
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Australia glyphosate-cancer class action lawsuit gets underway

Jess Davis | 
The first directions hearing in a class action against chemical giant Monsanto, over claims commonly used herbicide Roundup causes cancer, ...
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EU Parliament calls for full ban on sale, production and use of neonicotinoid pesticides to protect bees

The European Parliament has called on the Commission to strengthen its plan to protect Europe’s declining populations of bees and ...
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What’s missing from claims that neonicotinoids are killing bees, birds and fish?

Henry Miller | 
Criticism of pesticides is often undeserved -- and sometimes absolutely bizarre ...
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‘Dicamba fatigue’: State regulators anticipate more off-target damage from Bayer’s controversial herbicide in 2020

Emily Unglesbee | 
Three consecutive years of off-target dicamba injury is taking its toll on the agricultural industry. Leo Reed even has a ...
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Bayer asks appeals court to toss ‘speculative’ $25 million glyphosate-cancer verdict

Tina Bellon | 
Bayer AG on [Dec. 16] said it has asked a U.S. federal appeals court to throw out a $25 million ...
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Viewpoint: How the glyphosate-cancer controversy became a moral crusade—and a threat to scientific progress

Geoffrey Kabat | 
Sometimes the clear weight of evidence coupled with a dose of common sense is enough to show what’s right ...
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99% of tested food samples ‘well below’ EPA pesticide safety limits, new USDA report shows

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) [Dec. 10] published the 2018 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual ...
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Impossible Burger, Beyond Burger earn endorsement from anti-GMO Center for Biological Diversity

The Center for Biological Diversity supports Beyond and Impossible burgers and other food innovations urgently needed to accelerate the shift ...
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Viewpoint: Wild bees on the decline? Lack of evidence challenges popular environmentalist narrative

Henry Miller | 
'We can’t be simultaneously in the midst of a pollinator crisis threatening our ability to grow food and see continually ...
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Podcast: How nitrogen-fixing bacteria can cut fertilizer use 30-50%

Kevin Folta, Nolan Berg | 
In the early 20th century, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch revolutionized agriculture. The two German chemists developed a technique, now ...
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Viewpoint: With Conservative sweep of the ‘Brexit election’, Boris Johnson poised to steer the UK out of ‘outdated’ EU GMO, CRISPR regulations

Maria Chaplia | 
If the UK replaces the EU's overly cautious biotech rules with a pro-innovation scheme, it could become a true global ...
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Farmers may soon use drones to battle herbicide-resistant weeds

Kay Ledbetter | 
Remote sensing provides an alternative to ground-based manual scouting for weeds in agriculture fields. And, while many advances have been ...
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Austria’s January 2020 glyphosate ban halted on technical grounds

An Austrian ban on the weedkiller glyphosate, a substance that has long been disputed in Europe and beyond, can’t take ...
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Meet ‘Tom’: The weed-spotting robot that could slash blanket herbicide spraying

Andrew Forgrave | 
A National Trust estate farm has brought in a robot called Tom to map its weeds. The robot’s mapping capability ...
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France bans 36 glyphosate weed killers, citing products’ potential to damage DNA

French health and environment agency ANSES said on [Dec. 9] it was banning glyphosate-based weedkillers that represent most of the ...
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EU votes to ban insecticide chlorpyrifos, citing brain damage risk to children

Eddy Wax | 
A majority of EU countries voted to ban chlorpyrifos, an insecticide deemed unsafe for human health by the EU’s food ...
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Glyphosate-cancer trials postponed while Bayer, plaintiffs negotiate potential $8-$12 billion settlement

Ludwig Burger | 
Germany’s Bayer has agreed with plaintiffs to postpone its next two U.S. lawsuits over the alleged cancer-causing effects of its ...
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