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12/16/2021
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By Ethan Huff
Cost of doing business? Monsanto pleads guilty to 30 environmental crimes, agrees to pay measly $12 million fine
The Monsanto Company agreed to plead guilty to 30 environmental crimes related to the use of a pesticide on cornfields in Hawaii, court documents filed in the state earlier this month show. Monsanto admitted in a plea agreement that it committed 30 misdemeanor crimes related to the use of a glufosinate ammonium-based product sold under […]
08/25/2021
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By Mary Villareal
Monsanto ordered to pay $87M following reckless disregard of Roundup verdict
The 1st Appellate District in the Court of Appeals for California rejected a bid from Bayer-owned Monsanto to overturn its decision, indicating that Monsanto acted with “reckless disregard” against its cancer-causing weed killer, Roundup. The appeals court in San Francisco refused to overturn the 2019 verdict, in which a jury awarded over $2 billion to […]
05/21/2021
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By Nolan Barton
Syngenta weed killer trial moved to June, explores whether paraquat causes Parkinson’s disease
A highly anticipated first-ever trial pitting farmers against the global agricultural giant Syngenta AG over allegations that Syngenta’s paraquat weed-killer causes Parkinson’s disease has been moved to June 1 due to a combination of scheduling and COVID issues. The trial, titled Hoffman V. Syngenta, is supposed to begin Monday, May 10, at St. Clair County Circuit […]
06/22/2019
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By Edsel Cook
Long-term outlooks: Australian farmers eliminate herbicide-resistant “superweeds” using natural non-herbicidal methods
Decades ago, Australian farmers stopped using glyphosate and other herbicides to get rid of superweeds and seeds in their plots. Instead, they used natural methods of weed control and management that worked much better than toxic chemicals. Farms in Western Australia raise wheat and barley as the main food crops. The biggest threat comes from ryegrass superweeds that developed resistance […]
04/30/2019
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By News Editors
Glyphosate worse than we could imagine. “It’s everywhere”
As new studies continue to point to a direct link between the widely-used glyphosate herbicide and various forms of cancer, the agribusiness lobby fights ferociously to ignore or discredit evidence of human and other damage. A second US court jury case just ruled that Monsanto, now a part of the German Bayer AG, must pay […]
06/16/2017
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By Russel Davis
Scientists developing laser robot that can zap weeds without using pesticides
A team of researchers from the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the University of Bonn in Germany are currently developing a robotic tool that readily identifies weeds and shoots laser to eliminate them, thus reducing the need to use herbicides. The project received an EXIST Business Start-up Grant from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. […]
06/06/2017
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By Amy Goodrich
Despite links to cancer, the EU proposes a 10-year license renewal for key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” which is the second-highest classification for substances that can cause cancer. Glyphosate is the main ingredient of Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup. Instead of protecting public health and removing it from their products, Monsanto […]
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