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Bayer asks judge to overturn $2 billion glyphosate-cancer verdict based on ‘inflammatory, fabricated evidence’

Tina Bellon | 
Bayer AG has asked a California judge to overrule a $2 billion verdict by jurors who found the company’s glyphosate-based ...
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Bayer owns the global food supply? Seed company mergers haven’t inflated prices, stifled innovation, study shows

Koen Deconinck | 
•Detailed data show that concentration in seed markets varies strongly across crops and countries. •There is no clear evidence of ...
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Facing escalating legal costs defending Monsanto’s Roundup, Bayer invests $5.6 billion in alternative herbicide research

Douglas Busvine, Ludwig Burger | 
Germany's Bayer sought to repair its reputation on [June 14] after damage caused by U.S. litigation over claims its glyphosate ...
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Bayer asks judge to overturn $80 million glyphosate-cancer verdict, citing evidence excluded from trial

Ross Todd | 
Lawyers for Monsanto Co.’s parent company, Bayer AG, have asked the federal judge overseeing a batch of lawsuits accusing the ...
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Following debut of biotech firm Corteva, farm sector ‘more consolidated than ever’

Jacob Bunge | 
Corteva Agriscience Inc.’s first day as a stand-alone company is a milestone in an agricultural deal making spree that has ...
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Podcast: ‘Endarkenment’—How glyphosate-cancer hysteria spreads despite ample evidence of weed killer’s safety

Brian Dunning | 
It's hardly possible to turn on the news, to talk to a farmer, or to visit a nursery without hearing ...
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Will complicated science, ‘rising anti-business sentiment’ cripple Bayer’s glyphosate defense?

Michael Hiltzik | 
The epic $2.055-billion jury verdict against Monsanto over accusations that its blockbuster weed killer Roundup causes cancer is just one ...
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Podcast: Glyphosate, cancer and clickbait, Part 2: Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat analyzes ‘flawed’ Roundup-cancer verdicts

Cameron English, Geoffrey Kabat | 
Does Bayer's weed killer Roundup (glyphosate) cause cancer? Three California juries have said yes, while a global consensus of experts ...
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Arkansas bans dicamba herbicide use until fall following more than 1,000 crop damage complaints

As of May 26, farmers in Arkansas can no longer rely on dicamba to kill their weeds. The Arkansas Plant ...
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Bayer GMO seed factory expansion in Chile sparks outcry from environmental groups

Sophia Boddenberg | 
"Fuera Bayer-Monsanto de Chile" (Bayer-Monsanto out of Chile) is written on the colorfully painted posters held by protesters on the ...
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Monsanto PR firm FleishmanHillard defends effort to gather data on EU pesticide regulators, journalists

Thomas Moore | 
FleishmanHillard president and CEO John Saunders defended his agency’s work for Monsanto, which included compiling lists about stakeholders, in a ...
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‘Small victory’ for Bayer: Judge says firm can move upcoming glyphosate trials to farm states

Helen Christophi | 
In a win for Monsanto following more than $2 billion in cancer-trial losses in California against the company’s popular weed ...
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Glyphosate-cancer lawsuits spur development of next-generation weed killers

Erik Stokstad | 
"Total fear and shock." That's how Andrew Kniss, a weed scientist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, describes the ...
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Bayer trial: Judge picks high-profile attorney Ken Feinberg to mediate Roundup-cancer settlement negotiations

Tina Bellon | 
A U.S. judge overseeing Roundup-cancer lawsuits against Bayer AG provisionally appointed high-profile mediator Ken Feinberg to lead settlement negotiations over ...
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Bayer hires law firm to probe Monsanto’s Europe-wide data collection on pesticide regulators, journalists

Tassilo Hummel | 
Bayer on [May 21] hired law firm Sidley Austin to investigate a Europe-wide data collection scheme run by its Monsanto ...
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Wall Street Journal: Costly glyphosate-cancer legal battle one of ‘worst crises’ in Bayer’s 155-year history

Ruth Bender | 
Stuck in one of the worst crises in its 155-year history, Bayer AG, the German company that invented aspirin and ...
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What might be Bayer’s defense if one of the glyphosate cancer verdicts end up at the Supreme Court?

Tina Bellon | 
Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed ...
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Podcast: Glyphosate, cancer and clickbait: Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat on how to spot junk science in the news

Cameron English, Geoffrey Kabat | 
A Google search for "glyphosate" returns 10,300,000 results—conflicting news stories, opinion articles and videos of varying accuracy. Some of these ...
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Bayer to appeal $2 billion glyphosate-cancer verdict with EPA Roundup assessment excluded from trial

Liz Crampton | 
Bayer plans to make the EPA’s safety endorsement of a chemical in Roundup central to its case as the company ...
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Viewpoint: $2 billion glyphosate-cancer damages highlight why science is ‘no match’ for a persuasive lawyer

Chris Hughes | 
Bayer AG hoped it could rely on science to establish the safety of its Roundup weedkiller. But it has clearly ...
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Jury in third glyphosate-cancer trial orders Bayer to pay over $2 billion in damages—eighth-largest ever product-defect claim

Joel Rosenblatt | 
Bayer AG was ordered to pay more than $2 billion in damages to a California couple that claimed they got ...
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Bayer to investigate allegation Monsanto collected data of influential journalists, politicians to influence their views on pesticides

Ludwig Burger, Patricia Weiss | 
Bayer said on [May 12] it was hiring an external law firm to investigate French media complaints that Monsanto, the ...
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Bayer sues former employee for allegedly sharing pesticide trade secrets with competitor

A former scientist at Bayer CropScience shared confidential information with his new employer, which was used to develop commercial biopesticide ...
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Roundup on trial: Cancer cases plateaued while glyphosate use exploded, Bayer expert witness testifies

Maria Dinzeo | 
Alva Pilliod’s lymphoma likely had no known cause, but his singularly abnormal immune system allowed it to flourish, an oncologist ...
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Viewpoint: Defending IARC’s designation of glyphosate as carcinogenic undermines evidence-based science

Geoffrey Kabat | 
The apologetics of the decision's defenders are becoming all too predictable ...
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Costly glyphosate-cancer legal battles spark Bayer shareholder ‘revolt’

Eddy Wax, Maxime Schlee, Simon Marks | 
You can't blame the Americans at Monsanto any more. Europe's most politically inflammatory chemical — the ubiquitous weedkiller glyphosate — ...
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Bayer asks appellate court to toss $78 million glyphosate-cancer verdict

Brendan Pierson | 
Bayer AG on [April 24] asked a California appellate court to throw out a $78 million judgment it was ordered ...
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