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    Bayer Monsanto Damages Reduced to $25.27 Million by U.S. Judge

    Bayer Monsanto Damages Reduced to $25.27 Million by U.S. Judge

    U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria announced his ruling in San Francisco on Monday. Chhabria reduced the amount that Germany’s Bayer AG has to pay the claimant to .27 million (€22.4 million). Bayer bought Roundup maker Monsanto for billion last year. Following a four-week trial in March a federal jury awarded million (€4.4 million) in compensatory […]

    500 Sydney Outdoor Workers Hold Walkout Over RoundUp Health Concerns

    500 Sydney Outdoor Workers Hold Walkout Over RoundUp Health Concerns

    A town council in Sydney says it will start to trial alternative herbicides after 500 workers went on strike due to safety concerns over glyphosate-based Roundup, according to the Australian Associated Press. The outdoor staff in Blacktown, a western suburb of Sydney, refused to continue spraying glyphosate and urged management to follow the lead of […]

    Austria Poised to Become First EU Nation to Fully Ban Glyphosate

    Austria Poised to Become First EU Nation to Fully Ban Glyphosate

    By Jessica Corbett Austria is on track to become the first country in the European Union (EU) to fully ban the world’s most commonly used herbicide after the nation’s lower house of parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would outlaw all uses of glyphosate, which researchers and global health experts have tied to cancer. “The […]

    Angela Merkel: Glyphosate Use Will Eventually End

    Angela Merkel: Glyphosate Use Will Eventually End

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel told her country’s lower house of government that use of the controversial herbicide glyphosate will eventually die out, according to Reuters. Her new comments update steps she and her coalition government made to limit glyphosate use as a way to phase out its use and to put in new conditions and […]

    Glyphosate to Be Banned on Fort Myers Beach

    Glyphosate to Be Banned on Fort Myers Beach

    First Fort Myers banned plastic straws. Now it banned Roundup, or glyphosate, the controversial herbicide recently blamed for causing cancer by several juries, the News Press reports. Like the plastic straw ban, the driving force behind the ban was the health of Fort Myers’ waterways and marine resources. “This effort has all been about water […]

    Third Jury Rules Roundup Caused Cancer, Orders Bayer to Pay $2 Billion

    Third Jury Rules Roundup Caused Cancer, Orders Bayer to Pay $2 Billion

    A third jury ruled that Monsanto‘s Roundup weedkiller caused cancer Monday, awarding a California couple more than $2 billion in damages. Not only is it the largest award in a Roundup trial to date, it is also the largest U.S. jury award this year and the eighth-largest product-defect award ever, Bloomberg reported. “We really wanted […]

    5 Kids’ Snacks You Should Always Buy Organic

    5 Kids’ Snacks You Should Always Buy Organic

    By Nicole Ferox Did you know that in order to receive organic certification, packaged foods must be free of not only toxic pesticides but also thousands of added chemicals like artificial preservatives, colors and flavors? Only 40 synthetic substances have been reviewed and approved for organic packaged foods. By contrast, thousands of chemicals can be […]