cancer

Bayer Settles Roundup Cancer Suits for Over $10 Billion

Bayer Settles Roundup Cancer Suits for Over $10 Billion

In one of the largest civil settlements in U.S. history, Bayer agreed Wednesday to pay more than $10 billion to resolve around 95,000 cases claiming its glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. The deal will still allow Bayer to sell Roundup without adding any warnings, The New York Times reported. It comes after three juries in […]

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    Coronavirus Comes for Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

    Coronavirus Comes for Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

    An area in Louisiana whose predominantly black and brown residents are hard-hit by health problems from industry overdevelopment is experiencing one of the highest death rates from coronavirus of any county in the United States. St. John the Baptist parish, which sits along the Gulf Coast region known as Cancer Alley, has seen 30 of […]

    Blood Test Detects More Than 50 Types of Cancer

    Blood Test Detects More Than 50 Types of Cancer

    By Richard Connor A blood test that screens for more than 50 types of cancer could help doctors treat patients at an earlier stage than previously possible, a new study shows. The method was used to screen for more than 50 types of cancer — including particularly deadly variants such as pancreatic, ovarian, bowel and […]

    Lawsuit Appeals Permit for Formosa Plastics to Build in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

    Lawsuit Appeals Permit for Formosa Plastics to Build in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

    By Jessica Corbett A coalition of local and national groups on Friday launched a legal challenge to a Louisiana state agency’s decision to approve air permits for a $9.4 billion petrochemical complex that Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group plans to build in the region nationally known as “Cancer Alley.” Louisiana residents and environmental justice advocates have […]

    10 U.S. Oil Refineries Released Carcinogenic Benzene Above EPA Limits in 2019

    10 U.S. Oil Refineries Released Carcinogenic Benzene Above EPA Limits in 2019

    Emissions of the cancer-causing chemical benzene exceeded federal limits at 10 oil refineries across the U.S. last year, a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project has found. The Environmental Integrity Project reviewed data for 114 refineries across the country. Of the 10 that exceeded U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) action levels, six were in […]

    ‘Troubling Allegiance’ to Pesticide Company: Trump’s EPA Claims Glyphosate Poses No Risk to Human Health

    ‘Troubling Allegiance’ to Pesticide Company: Trump’s EPA Claims Glyphosate Poses No Risk to Human Health

    By Eoin Higgins President Donald Trump‘s Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday wrapped up a regulatory review of the safety of the weedkiller glyphosate and found the chemical poses no risk to human health — a decision that was immediately decried by advocates as another indication of the closeness between the administration and private sector interests. […]