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EU blocks Austria’s planned glyphosate ban, rejecting claim that weedkiller harms human health

Eddy Wax | Politico | 
The European Commission has blocked Austria from implementing a planned ban on the controversial weedkiller glyphosate, a document seen by ...
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Trump rebuff: Administration-backed Idaho law banning transgender athletes from participating in school sports that match their gender identity on hold

Bianca Quilantan | Politico | 
Idaho’s "Fairness in Women’s Sports Act" [that bars transgender women from participating in school sports] will now be on pause ...
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EU environmental groups say proposed pesticide rules would ‘water down’ protection for pollinators

Arthur Neslen, Eddy Wax | Politico | 
EU countries .... expressed their preference for a way of regulating potentially bee-harming pesticides that has been contested by environmental ...
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Is the FDA facing political pressure to rush through approval of untested COVID-19 vaccines to fit Trump’s political schedule?

Sarah Owermohle | Politico | 
President Donald Trump has promised that there will be a coronavirus vaccine before the year is out. But public health ...
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Contact tracing promises to curb the spread of COVID-19 in New York–if privacy fears can be overcome

Amanda Eisenberg | Politico | 
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers will be asked to disclose personal information this month as part of the city’s ...
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Europe fears empty grocery stores amid coronavirus outbreak, but food companies say there’s plenty to go around

Eddy Wax | Politico | 
Naked supermarket shelves and masked shoppers hoarding pasta have become the iconic images of the coronavirus crisis so far. But ...
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‘Just an overreaction’: Inside the world of coronavirus denialism

Keith Kloor | Politico | 
I created a faux Twitter account and set about building my own information bubble. My objective: Inhabit the world of ...
Europe considers accelerated GMO import approval process to facilitate mini US trade deal

Europe considers accelerated GMO import approval process to facilitate mini US trade deal

Arthur Neslen, Jakob Hanke Vela | Politico | 
Brussels is ready to offer to speed up the approval process for genetically modified organisms imported into the EU, as ...
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EU review of strict CRISPR crop rules dominated by biotech industry, anti-GMO groups allege

Arthur Neslen, Eddy Wax | Politico | 
The EU is launching a consultation as part of an info-gathering exercise for a Commission study on “the status of ...
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Leaked proposals suggest EU may assess CRISPR gene editing to ‘improve sustainability’ of food production

Arthur Neslen, Eddy Wax, Louise Guillot | Politico | 
More leaked drafts of the Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy reveal how the [European] Commission’s plan to make EU food ...
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EU Green Party aims to halve synthetic pesticide use by 2025, phase it out completely in 15 years

Arthur Neslen, Eddy Wax, Zoia Wanat | Politico | 
The EU’s European Green Deal drafters may have succeeded in dodging some of the most immediately contentious issues in the ...
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‘Mini-trade deal’ between US, China expected to ease Chinese restrictions on GMO crops

Adam Behsudi | Politico | 
President Donald Trump has signed off on a mini-trade deal with China, four people familiar with the negotiations said on ...
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EU votes to ban insecticide chlorpyrifos, citing brain damage risk to children

Eddy Wax | Politico | 
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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Soybean designed to grow on exhausted pasture land could help protect Amazon rainforest

Arthur Neslen | Politico | 
The agrichemical giant Syngenta wants to go green by developing specific varieties of soybeans to be grown away from the ...
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French Parliament: 2022 glyphosate ban falls off track as widespread weed killer use continues

Zosia Wanat | Politico | 
IS FRANCE’S GLYPHOSATE EXIT PLAN ON TRACK? A French parliament report, published on [Nov. 13], suggests not. President Emmanuel Macron ...
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UK could tackle sustainability challenges post Brexit with GMO crops, farmer’s union chief says

Emilio Casalicchio | Politico | 
Boosting the use of genetically modified crops in the U.K. after Brexit could be “enormously beneficial,” according to the National ...
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Will the EU reverse its block on CRISPR crops? Rebel countries urge regulators to reconsider legal status of gene editing

Eddy Wax | Politico | 
The EU Council will ask the Commission to conduct a study into the “status of novel genomic techniques” for plants ...
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Danone, General Mills to Congress: USDA investment in carbon sequestration on farms can help mitigate looming ‘climate crisis’

CLIMATE CRISIS COMMITTEE LOOKS FOR AG SOLUTIONS: Congress took a rare dive into the nexus of climate change and agriculture ...
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EU bans neonic insecticide thiacloprid after 2020, citing threats to human reproductive health, bees

Eddy Wax | Politico | 
EU countries [Ocotber 22] voted not to extend the license of the insecticide thiacloprid when it expires at the end ...
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Food industry splinters on GMO labeling, plant-based products in scramble to meet changing consumer demands

Helena Bottemiller Evich | Politico | 
The trillion-dollar food industry was once unified and used to getting its way in the Swamp through the collective might ...
Fear of 'mighty multinationals' could spur European glyphosate bans despite evidence, EU food safety official says

Fear of ‘mighty multinationals’ could spur European glyphosate bans despite evidence, EU food safety official says

Eddy Wax | Politico | 
The world’s most used herbicide is now more of a political football than a weedkiller. Bernhard Url, the head of ...
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Bayer ready for legal battle if EU bans glyphosate in 2022, company leadership says

Zosia Wanat | Politico | 
Bayer’s top exec on pesticides suggested the agrichemical giant would consider legal action if the EU decides to ban the ...
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German government, farm group face off over impact of potential glyphosate ban

Arthur Neslen, Eddy Wax, Zosia Wanat | Politico | 
The German agriculture ministry strenuously rubbished a claim by farmers association DBV that the country’s new insect protection plan, which ...
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French town’s failed pesticide ban reignites national campaign against Bayer’s Roundup weed killer

Eddy Wax | Politico | 
Daniel Cueff’s failed crusade to ban pesticides in his tiny Breton village lays bare the deep political contradictions at the ...
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EU urges member states to ban insecticide chlorpyrifos, citing potential threat to children’s health

Kayla Sharpe | Politico | 
The European Commission will put forward a proposal to EU countries not to renew the license for the pesticide chlorpyrifos ...
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French President Emmanuel Macron challenges legality of town’s glyphosate weed killer ban

Arthur Neslen, Eddy Wax, Eline Schaart | Politico | 
French President Emmanuel Macron told a mayor from Brittany who ordered a ban on the use of pesticides near his ...
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Bayer sells animal health division for $7.6 billion, denies deal prompted by glyphosate-cancer lawsuits

Eddy Wax | Politico | 
Agriculture and pharmaceutical giant Bayer [August 20] agreed [to] a $7.6 billion deal to sell its animal health business to ...
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Bipartisan congressional group urges FDA to develop ‘workable’ GMO, CRISPR-edited animal rules

Ryan Mccrimmon | Politico | 
More than 20 House Energy & Commerce Committee members sent a letter to acting FDA Commissioner Ned Sharpless on [July 26] ...
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