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Monsanto sues Arkansas Plant Board for restricting dicamba herbicide use

Andrew DeMillo | Associated Press | 
A major agribusiness company sued Arkansas regulators ... for banning its version of an herbicide that's drawn complaints from farmers across several ...
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Oregon court reaffirms decision to block Josephine County’s proposed GMO ban

Associated Press | 
The Oregon Court of Appeals has decided to keep blocking a voter-approved initiative that bans genetically engineered crops in Josephine ...
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Italy’s GMO corn ban unlawful, European Union court rules

Vanessa Gera | Associated Press | 
The European Union court ruled Wednesday (September 13] in favor of an Italian activist farmer who has defied his nation's ...
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Do genetic tests inspire healthier habits? Evidence says ‘no’

Malcolm Ritter | Associated Press | 
If you learned your DNA made you more susceptible to getting a disease, wouldn't you work to stay healthy? You'd ...
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Canada approves 3 Simplot GMO potatoes that resist blight, reduce fungicide use by half

Keith Ridler | Associated Press | 
Three types of potatoes genetically engineered by an Idaho company to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine ...
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Neanderthals may have lived in California — 130,000 years ago

Malcolm Ritter | Associated Press | 
A startling new report asserts that the first known Americans arrived much, much earlier than scientists thought — more than ...
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Dow Chemical asks Trump administration to ‘set aside’ government studies pesticide maker says are flawed

Michael Biesecker | Associated Press | 
Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration open to scrapping regulations to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point ...
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Farmers’ lawsuit alleges $5 billion in losses stemming from Syngenta’s release of GM corn before Chinese approval

Associated Press | 
The first of tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits [went] to trial on Monday [April 24, 2017] against Swiss agribusiness ...
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Oregon bill to allow local governments to regulate GMO crops fails again

Associated Press | 
Local governments in Oregon will continue to be prohibited from regulating genetically engineered crops. Bills to ease the ban both ...
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ChemChina takeover of Syngenta approved by US, EU regulators in China’s biggest foreign acquisition ever

Joe McDonald | Associated Press | 
U.S. and European regulators have cleared a Chinese conglomerate's proposed $43 billion acquisition of Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta on condition ...
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Houston area may be test zone for genetically modified mosquitoes in Zika fight

Associated Press | 
Officials are considering releasing genetically modified mosquitoes in Houston as part of the fight against the insects known to carry ...
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Rusty patched bumblebee officially added to endangered species list

John Flesher | Associated Press | 
[Editor’s note: Read the GLP’s coverage of pollinators here.] The rusty patched bumblebee on Tuesday [March 21, 2017] became the ...
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One third of lymphoma patients cancer free after 6 months in CAR-T gene therapy study

Marilynn Marchione | Associated Press | 
An experimental gene therapy that turns a patient's own blood cells into cancer killers worked in a major study, with ...
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Blight-resistant genetically engineered potatoes that cut fungicide use approved

Keith Ridler | Associated Press | 
Three types of potatoes genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine are safe for the ...
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California can place cancer warning label on the herbicide glyphosate, judge ‘tentatively’ rules

Scott Smith | Associated Press | 
California can require Monsanto [and other manufacturers of glyphosate] to label its popular weed-killer Roundup as a possible cancer threat ...
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Environmental groups push stricter pesticide rules, including glyphosate ban, in Hawaii

Cathy Bussewitz | Associated Press | 
Hawaii residents concerned about pesticide use by major agriculture companies on the islands are planning a push to strengthen regulation ...
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Monsanto shareholders approve Bayer takeover

Jim Salter | Associated Press | 
Monsanto Co. shareholders on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a $57 billion merger with Bayer AG, a deal that would combine two ...
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Two new varieties of blight-resistant GMO potatoes approved by USDA

Keith Ridler | Associated Press | 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved commercial planting of two types of potatoes that are genetically engineered to resist ...
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Girls tend to experience softer symptoms of autism than boys

Lindsey Tanner | Associated Press | 
Think autism and an image of an awkward boy typically emerges. The developmental disorder is at least four times more ...
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Chipotle-led campaign against Big Ag, GMOs mocks concern for customer health

Candice Choi | Associated Press | 
Gathered for a free music festival, a crowd waits to see one of the headline attractions — an exhibit about ...
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Beyond BRCA: New, rare genes linked to breast cancer

Sarah Wiedersehn | Associated Press | 
Most women know about the BRCA 1 and 2 gene mutations and how they significantly increase a woman's chance of ...
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GMO law forces small food companies to make tough decisions about labels, ingredients

Joyce Rosenberg | Associated Press | 
A new law that requires food makers to label the packaging of any products that contain genetically modified ingredients has ...

Vermont won’t enforce state GMO labeling law while federal labeling rules in works

Associated Press | 
The Vermont Attorney General's office says it won't be enforcing the state's first-in-the-nation law that required the labeling of some ...

Native American tribe joins lawsuit challenging FDA approval of GMO salmon

Phuong Le | Associated Press | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Native American tribe ...

When Colombia ended aerial spraying of glyphosate, cultivation of cocaine crop surged

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After six straight years ...

Vermont prepares to enforce GMO labeling law, will target ‘willful violations’

Lisa Rathke | Associated Press | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As Vermont is set to become ...

WA state: Food Democracy Action! hid anti-GMO donors from public in state labeling campaign

Associated Press | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Washington Attorney General Bob ...

Massachusetts GMO labeling bill moves to state legislature with bipartisan support

Associated Press | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A bill that would ...
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