9th Circuit Court Eviscerates EPA Over Pesticide Approval
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a stinging rebuke to the EPA this week, ruling its policy on dicamba herbicides was deeply flawed.
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Why The Economic Game Still Outplays The Environment
From Paris to Berlin and Brussels: The standardization of conflicts of interest on public decision making.
California Couple Awarded $2 Billion In Roundup Trial
A couple in California has been awarded more than $2 billion in damages for health issues a jury found were caused by Roundup, a week killer manufactured by Monsanto. That’s a lot of money, but it’s unlikely anyone would want to switch places with the plaintiffs.
Internal Monsanto Emails Show Scientist Stating: “If Somebody Came To Me & Said They Wanted…
A number of interesting documents were released on Tuesday as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Monsanto. Not our typical beat, this seemed worth drawing attention to here on CleanTechnica anyway. Overall, these documents seem to paint a pretty clear picture of a company working to bend the rules to suit its best interests, and also one where there was clear internal “debate” about the actual safety of its best-selling product, Roundup.
California Adding Glyphosate (Active Ingredient In Roundup) To Official List Of Cancer-Causing Chemicals, Effective July…
The US state of California will be adding the widely used herbicide glyphosate — the so-called “active ingredient” in Monsanto’s most popular weedkiller, Roundup — to its official list of chemicals that are known to cause cancer, according to recent reports.
Lawsuit: Monsanto Ghostwrote Papers On Roundup Cancer Risk, EPA Used Them, … & EPA Official…
Newly unsealed documents relating to a lawsuit against Monsanto have revealed that the US EPA official who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of Monsanto’s Roundup product stated in a conversation with a company exec that he would try to get an investigation started by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) “killed.”
And … that he “should get a medal” for doing so.
Alphabet (Google Parent Company) Selling Terra Bella Satellite Business
The parent company of Google, Alphabet, is reportedly now in advanced discussions to sell its satellite business Terra Bella (formerly Skybox Imaging).
