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India cancels royalties seed companies pay Bayer for GMO cotton, threatening foreign investment in nation’s biotech crop sector

Mayank Bhardwaj |
India has axed the royalties that local seed companies pay to German drugmaker Bayer AG for Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) ...
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Activist-led lawsuit alleges EPA glyphosate weedkiller approval violated Endangered Species Act

Todd Neeley |
EPA's interim registration approval of glyphosate in January now faces its first court challenge, as a number of food safety, ...
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Viewpoint: There’s no industry conspiracy to corrupt research on bees and neonicotinoid insecticides

Alison McAfee |
There’s a stereotype that industry-funded research is inherently compromised. Perhaps this is true for some specific cases, but for honey ...
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Plaintiff in glyphosate-cancer trial defends original $80 million verdict against Bayer on appeal

Amanda Bronstad |
A man who won an $80 million verdict over Monsanto Co.’s Roundup [in 2019] defended the award on appeal, including ...
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EPA watchdog to determine if agency followed ‘scientifically sound principles’ in approving dicamba herbicides

Emily Unglesbee |
The inspector general of the EPA is planning to look into whether EPA acted properly when it registered dicamba in ...
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Bayer, 6 plaintiffs firms agree on draft settlement terms in Roundup-cancer litigation, but thousands of cases could still go to trial

Jacob Bunge, Laura Kusisto |
Bayer has agreed on draft settlement terms with half a dozen law firms representing tens of thousands of plaintiffs alleging ...
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Opposition to EPA re-approval of Bayer, BASF dicamba herbicides mounts as widespread crop damage continues

Johnathan Hettinger |
Decisions made in the next year will be critical for the future use of the herbicide dicamba, a weed killer ...
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Judge cancels second federal glyphosate-cancer trial to aid settlement talks between Bayer, plaintiffs

Amanda Bronstad |
In an order on [March 5], U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria vacated the March 23 trial date for the second ...
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EPA appears likely to re-approve drift-prone dicamba herbicides with added restrictions

Bryan Young, Tom Bechman |
When the U.S. EPA reregistered dicamba soybean herbicides for use on Xtend soybeans in 2018, labels were effective for two ...
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Soybean damage caused by Bayer’s drift-prone dicamba herbicide spurs farmers to use competing GMO seeds, weedkillers

Rod Nickel, Tom Polansek |
Bayer AG’s takeover of Monsanto has been beset by problems, and now a decades-long dominance of the $4 billion U.S ...
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Bayer in ‘no rush’ to settle Roundup-cancer litigation following endorsements from EPA, Department of Justice

Ludwig Burger, Patricia Weiss |
.... Bayer was at pains on [Feb. 27] to quell expectations it was nearing an out-of-court settlement laying to rest ...
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Bayer Chairman to step down as potential $12 billion Roundup-cancer litigation settlement looms

Ludwig Burger |
Bayer Chairman Werner Wenning, one of the architects of a $63 billion takeover deal that has left the German crop ...
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Remember the questionable study claiming glyphosate boosts cancer risk 41%? Lead author reasserts her claim, EPA refutes it, and we take a second look

Geoffrey Kabat |
Sheppard and her co-authors are intent on favoring data that appears to support the existence of a risk from glyphosate ...
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$265 million dicamba weed killer verdict paves way for more successful lawsuits against Monsanto, BASF

Bryce Gray |
A $265 million verdict .... against two global agribusiness giants [in late February] has now created another legal headache for ...
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Bayer likely to fight new wave of Roundup-cancer litigation in Australia, despite looming US settlement

Jess Davis |
As tens of thousands of cases against the makers of the weedkiller Roundup mount up in the United States, a ...
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Viewpoint: Science losing out to anti-glyphosate hysteria, farmers in a quandary as there are no alternative weedkillers as effective

Confirmation [in January] by the U.S. [EPA] that glyphosate is not carcinogenic is welcome, but .... it doesn’t matter. What ...
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Weedkiller breakthrough? Bayer developing new herbicide to help farmers tackle glyphosate-resistant weeds

Sonja Begemann |
With stakes in the fight against tough-to-control and resistant weeds at an all-time high, Bayer is adding a new tool ...
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Bayer faces ‘almost impossible’ task of ending glyphosate-cancer litigation while its Roundup herbicide remains in stores

Jacob Bunge, Laura Kusisto, Ruth Bender |
Bayer faces an extraordinary challenge as it tries to settle tens of thousands of claims that its Roundup weedkiller causes ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Dicamba Debacle’ stirs questions about the future shape of ‘industrial, intensive agriculture’

Marc Brazeau |
The dicamba debacle gives a chance to answer key questions about industrial agriculture with rare specificity ...
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California attorney general sides with Bayer glyphosate cancer plaintiffs, challenges appeal of $78.5 million verdict

Xavier Becerra |
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed an amicus brief in Johnson v. Monsanto, arguing against preemption of state laws requiring ...
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Viewpoint: Dicamba debacle trial forces a reevaluation: Was Monsanto a ‘bonafide bad actor’?

Marc Brazeau |
The toll on farmers is infuriating enough. But there could be widespread damage to the environment as well ...
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Bayer appeals last year’s $86 million California Monsanto Roundup glyphosate-cancer trial verdict

Tina Bellon |
Bayer AG has asked a California appeals court to overturn an $86 million verdict that found it was responsible for ...
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As many as 85,000 glyphosate-cancer lawsuits ‘significantly’ closer to settlement after federal trials suspended

Alexander Kell |
Bayer AG’s federal court cases in the U.S. about the Roundup weedkiller have been pushed back at the request of ...
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Technology breeds sustainability on Brazilian family farm

Joan Conrow |
As Brazilian farmer and attorney Henrique Gustavo Fiorese sees it, the future of agriculture depends on technology and sustainability.Though either ...
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Dicamba trial: Bayer contends peach farm damage occurred before drift-prone Monsanto herbicide hit the market

Johnathan Hettinger |
In all-day testimony on the eighth day of the trial, [farmer Bill] Bader said as long as dicamba is sprayed ...
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With Roundup-cancer settlement looming, activists revive conspiracy claim that glyphosate surfactants threaten human health

Cameron English |
The narrative of underdog cancer victims unmasking corporate villains isn't backed up by the evidence ...
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Dicamba on trial: Peach farmer testifies Monsanto knew its drift-prone herbicide would damage his 1,000-acre operation

Johnathan Hettinger |
Since 1970, Bill Bader has worked on peach farms in Dunklin County, Missouri, just north of the Arkansas border. Bader ...