Glyphosate
Evidence may not matter: Roundup cancer settlements could trigger international pesticide suits regardless of health impacts
Since litigation began a couple years ago, Roundup, a particular brand of glyphosate based pesticide, is now firmly established as ...
Viewpoint: Court-ordered dicamba weedkiller ban could fuel new legal strategy to restrict Bayer’s Roundup
On June 3, 2020, a panel of three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San ...
Colombia aims to restart aerial glyphosate spraying of coca crops under pressure from US
Alhough coca crop size fell 9% in 2019 to the lowest level in six years, the capacity to produce cocaine ...
India floats glyphosate weedkiller restrictions to curb demand for illegal herbicide-tolerant cotton
The agriculture ministry, in a draft notification, has restricted the use of glyphosate only through Pest Control Operators (PCOs). “No ...
Deal to limit future glyphosate suits against Bayer collapsing, but $10.9 billion settlement likely to hold
The plan concocted by Monsanto owner Bayer AG and a small group of lawyers was filed [in June] in U.S ...
Will the Bayer glyphosate settlement fall apart? Judge says he may reject $10.9 billion Monsanto Roundup agreement, saying future plaintiffs might be hurt
[In June] Bayer agreed to pay as much as $10.9 billion to settle close to 100,000 U.S. lawsuits [alleging its ...
How the COVID pandemic may have helped Bayer settle crippling glyphosate-cancer litigation
[Editor's note: Biotech giant Bayer recently settled roughly 95,000 lawsuits alleging it Roundup herbicide causes cancer. The $10.9 billion settlement ...
Viewpoint: Bayer’s $10 billion glyphosate settlement follows familiar pattern of legalized plunder
The only reason Bayer is paying anybody anything is a flawed U.S. tort system that left the company little choice ...
After Bayer settles glyphosate-cancer suits, Australian farmers pledge to defend the herbicide
In spite of the fact Bayer made no admission of guilt when settling with plaintiffs that alleged its glyphosate-based herbicides ...
Mexico pledges to ban glyphosate weedkiller by 2024 to ‘protect human health and the environment’
“Given the scientific evidence of glyphosate toxicity, demonstrating the impacts on human health and the environment, the Secretariat of Environment ...
Podcast: Bayer’s $10.9 billion glyphosate settlement a mistake? Vaccines from mosquito spit; CRISPR cures sickle cell disease?
Chemical giant Bayer just settled roughly 95,000 lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. Has the company given its anti-GMO ...
France’s proposed 2022 glyphosate weedkiller ban would harm conservation agriculture, USDA says
The French government’s agricultural research institute found that banning glyphosate will significantly increase production costs for French farmers practicing no-till ...
Court order blocking California glyphosate cancer label could spark more legal challenges to Prop. 65
On June 22, 2020, U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb (Eastern District of California) granted summary judgment in favor of ...
Canadian glyphosate-cancer lawsuits against Bayer may proceed regardless of US settlement
.... [T]he agreements, between Bayer and numerous law firms in America, don’t apply to potential class action lawsuits in Canada, ...
$10.9 billion Monsanto Roundup settlement does not automatically shield Bayer from ‘flood’ of new glyphosate-cancer lawsuits
[Bayer] on [June 24] agreed to pay as much as $10.9 billion to end the litigation by U.S. Roundup users ...
Despite $10.9 billion US glyphosate-cancer settlement, Australia officially maintains weedkiller ‘perfectly safe’
The pesticides giant Bayer agreed .... to pay up to US$10.9bn (A$15.8bn) to settle about 95,000 cases claiming [the glyphosate-based ...
Viewpoint: Court order blocking California glyphosate cancer label a huge win against ‘junk science’
Federal Judge William Shubb ruled that due to insufficient evidence, California cannot require glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup to be labeled as ...
Viewpoint: Bayer caved to anti-science trial lawyers by settling glyphosate-cancer lawsuits
Bayer, the German pesticide and seed company, has agreed to establish a $10 billion fund that aims to resolve current ...
Bayer settles estimated 95,000 glyphosate weedkiller-cancer lawsuits with 25 firms for more than $10 billion, admits no wrongdoing
Bayer, the world's largest seed and pesticide maker, has agreed to pay more than $10 billion to settle tens of ...
$8-10 billion settlement in thousands of Bayer glyphosate lawsuits ‘imminent’
Biotech giant Bayer is expected to settle thousands of lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer the week of June ...
California can’t force Bayer to put Prop. 65 cancer warning on Roundup glyphosate weedkiller, judge rules
A federal judge in Sacramento on [June 22] ruled for Bayer and blocked the state from requiring that any company ...
Plaintiffs attorneys in glyphosate-cancer suit plead guilty to $200 million extortion plot
According to the [Virginia] Department of Justice, 38-year-old Timothy Litzenburg, of Charlottesville, and 41-year-old Daniel Kincheloe, of Glen Allen, each ...
Viewpoint: Trump Administration should cut funding to WHO’s IARC cancer agency
The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer] IARC is supposed to be a scientific program that classifies ...
Podcast: WHO was wrong about COVID; Pandemics make women cheat? Rampant fraud threatens organic farming
Infectious disease experts have blasted the World Health Organization for telling the public that asymptomatic patients rarely spread COVID-19. Pandemics ...
Viewpoint: Mexico’s glyphosate weedkiller import restrictions could harm farmers and consumers alike
In November, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources denied the importation of a thousand tons of glyphosate, the basic ...
Unless you eat 10 pounds of oatmeal daily, glyphosate in your cereal isn’t dangerous
Is there glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, hiding in your cereal? Even if there is, there’s some reliable ...
Glyphosate contaminates food? Simple testing method could dispel exaggerated weedkiller risk claims
Researchers at Leipzig University in Germany say they have developed a quick and simple way of testing for glyphosate in ...
