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California Judge Rules Against Monsanto, Allows Cancer Warning on Roundup

California Judge Rules Against Monsanto, Allows Cancer Warning on Roundup

California is the first U.S. state to require Monsanto to label its blockbuster weed killer, Roundup, as a possible carcinogen, according to a ruling issued Friday by a California judge. Fresno County Superior Court Judge Kristi Kapetan previously issued a tentative ruling on Jan. 27 in Monsanto Company v. Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, […]

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    ​Oroville Dam: A Wake-Up Call for America

    ​Oroville Dam: A Wake-Up Call for America

    The utterly avoidable, terrifying and still potentially catastrophic failures of the spillways of North America’s highest dam—California’s 170 foot, earth-filled Oroville—could, with the right national leadership, awaken America to the urgency of investing in our physical safety and future—our infrastructure. Sixty years old, Oroville single handedly provides one-third of the water for all of Southern […]

    Major Victory for California Cities vs. Monsanto Over PCB Contamination

    Major Victory for California Cities vs. Monsanto Over PCB Contamination

    Monsanto may be looking forward to turning a new leaf with its potential $66 billion mega-merger with Bayer AG, but the agrochemical giant just can’t shake its notorious past as the primary manufacturer of highly toxic and banned substances called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, that were once used for paints, electrical equipment and other products. […]

    1,650 Illegal Oil Wells Still Polluting California Aquifers

    1,650 Illegal Oil Wells Still Polluting California Aquifers

    Gov. Jerry Brown’s oil regulators failed to meet their own deadline Wednesday for shutting down 1,650 oil industry injection wells that are violating water-protection laws by dumping toxic fluid into protected California aquifers. “Governor Brown’s administration has decided not to protect our water from illegal contamination by the oil industry,” said Hollin Kretzmann of the […]

    188,000 Flee as ‘Wall of Water’ Threatens Northern California

    188,000 Flee as ‘Wall of Water’ Threatens Northern California

    As nearly 200,000 Northern California residents flee to higher ground over the threat of the Oroville Dam emergency spillway’s failure Sunday night, a report has emerged that state and federal officials were warned 12 years ago that the earthen structure was already at risk of erosion. The Mercury News reported that back in Oct. 2005, […]

    Oil Wells as Neighbors in Urban LA

    Oil Wells as Neighbors in Urban LA

    Check out this first video in the in Stop Fooling California‘s #BadNeighbors series. The video tells the story of urban oil extraction in Los Angeles, featuring powerful voices and stories about life with an oil well as a neighbor and how communities of color are disproportionately shouldering this burden. [facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/1446986521980947/ expand=1]

    Tesla Unveils World’s Largest Battery Storage Plant to Reduce Reliance on Fossil Fuels

    Tesla Unveils World’s Largest Battery Storage Plant to Reduce Reliance on Fossil Fuels

    In an effort to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels, Tesla and Southern California Edison have unveiled a massive battery storage facility at the utility’s Mira Loma substation in Ontario, California. https://twitter.com/SCE/status/826211509948784640 The project—which is being described as the largest lithium-ion battery storage project in the world—consists of 396 stacks of Tesla Powerpack units spread […]

    Judge Blocks Monsanto’s Bid to Stop California From Listing Glyphosate as Carcinogenic

    Judge Blocks Monsanto’s Bid to Stop California From Listing Glyphosate as Carcinogenic

    California could become the first state to require Monsanto to label its glyphosate-based herbicide, Roundup, as a possible carcinogen following Fresno County Superior Court Judge Kristi Kapetan’s tentative ruling on Friday. Monsanto’s best-selling Roundup herbicide.Flickr The tentative ruling regards the agrochemical giant’s Jan. 2016 lawsuit against California’s Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard […]

    Monsanto, California Battle Over Listing Glyphosate as a Carcinogen

    Monsanto, California Battle Over Listing Glyphosate as a Carcinogen

    Next week, Monsanto and California’s Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) will face off over the agency’s plan to list the herbicide glyphosate as a carcinogen. The outcome of this legal battle could have major ramifications to California’s long-established regulatory program. It all started back in Sept. 2015 when the OEHHA […]