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Opening Statements Set for Monday in Monsanto Cancer Trial

Opening Statements Set for Monday in Monsanto Cancer Trial

By Carey Gillam Let the battle begin. Opening statements are slated for Monday in the landmark legal case that for the first time puts Monsanto and its Roundup herbicide on trial over allegations that the company’s widely used weed killer can cause cancer. Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, a San Francisco-area school groundskeeper who used a form […]

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    One Mom’s Campaign to Save the Swimmers

    One Mom’s Campaign to Save the Swimmers

    By Stacy Malkan “I want grandkids one day, so sperm is important to me because I’ve got three young boys,” said mom, author and social media genius Leah Segedie in a video introducing her “Save the Swimmers” campaign. “This is where my youngest rolls his eyes at me and says, ‘I know Mom. Avoiding plastics […]

    Transforming the Food We Eat With DowDuPont

    Transforming the Food We Eat With DowDuPont

    By Stacy Malkan The world’s largest pesticide and seed companies want you to believe they are on the side of science. High-tech foods are the future, they say, and people who raise concerns about their pesticides and genetically engineered seeds are “anti-science.” The Atlantic magazine will provide a platform to those industry talking points in […]

    EPA Says Glyphosate Does Not Cause Cancer, Contradicting IARC

    EPA Says Glyphosate Does Not Cause Cancer, Contradicting IARC

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released on Monday a human health and ecological draft risk assessment for glyphosate, concluding that the widely used—and highly controversial—pesticide is “not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.” According to the EPA’s announcement, the assessment “found no other meaningful risks to human health when the product is used according […]

    Collusion or Coincidence? Records Show EPA Slowed Glyphosate Review in Coordination With Monsanto

    Collusion or Coincidence? Records Show EPA Slowed Glyphosate Review in Coordination With Monsanto

    By Carey Gillam Newly released government email communications show a persistent effort by multiple officials within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to slow a separate federal agency’s safety review of Monsanto’s top-selling herbicide. Notably, the records demonstrate that the EPA efforts came at the behest of Monsanto, and that EPA officials were helpful enough […]

    Internal EPA Documents Show Scramble for Data on Monsanto’s Roundup

    Internal EPA Documents Show Scramble for Data on Monsanto’s Roundup

    By Carey Gillam As agrochemical giant Monsanto Co. faces a growing wave of U.S. lawsuits over its top-selling Roundup herbicide line, among its key defense arguments is that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long backed the safety of the weed-killing products. And indeed, the EPA has been a stalwart supporter of Monsanto Co.’s […]

    ‘Secret Docs’ Show Monsanto’s Attempt to Influence Writers, Bribe Scientists

    ‘Secret Docs’ Show Monsanto’s Attempt to Influence Writers, Bribe Scientists

    By Jessica Corbett A trove of Monsanto’s internal records released on Tuesday raises serious concerns about company efforts to influence media reports and scientific research related to risks posed by is popular weedkiller, Roundup. As the New York Times reported: Documents show that Henry I. Miller, an academic and a vocal proponent of genetically modified […]

    Are Corporate Ties Influencing Reuters Science Coverage?

    Are Corporate Ties Influencing Reuters Science Coverage?

    By Stacy Malkan Ever since they classified the world’s most widely used herbicide as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” a team of international scientists at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research group have been under withering attack by the agrichemical industry and its surrogates. In a front-page series, The Monsanto Papers, the French newspaper Le […]