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Coca-Cola Sees Public Health Debate as ‘a Growing War,’ Documents Reveal

Coca-Cola Sees Public Health Debate as ‘a Growing War,’ Documents Reveal

Coca-Cola intentionally funded the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN) as a “weapon” in a “growing war between the public health community and private industry” on the causes of obesity, according to a press release sent to EcoWatch by consumer group U.S. Right to Know. The quotes come from documents obtained in a Freedom of Information […]

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    USDA Drops Plan to Test for Monsanto Weed Killer in Food

    USDA Drops Plan to Test for Monsanto Weed Killer in Food

    By Carey Gillam The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has quietly dropped a plan to start testing food for residues of glyphosate, the world’s most widely used weed killer and key ingredient in Monsanto’s branded Roundup herbicides. The agency spent the last year coordinating with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Food and […]

    Judge Threatens to Sanction Monsanto for Secrecy in Roundup Cancer Lawsuits

    Judge Threatens to Sanction Monsanto for Secrecy in Roundup Cancer Lawsuits

    By Carey Gillam Nearly a year after a mysterious leak of industry-friendly information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), many pressing questions remain about the agency’s interactions with agribusiness giant Monsanto and its handling of cancer concerns with Monsanto’s top-selling herbicide. But thanks to a federal court judge in California, we may soon start […]

    EPA Sued for Failure to Release Glyphosate Documents

    EPA Sued for Failure to Release Glyphosate Documents

    U.S. Right to Know, a consumer advocacy organization, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for violating provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Public Citizen Litigation Group, a public interest law firm in Washington, DC, is representing U.S. Right to Know in the action. The lawsuit, filed in […]

    Cancer Lawsuits Allege EPA-Monsanto Collusion

    Cancer Lawsuits Allege EPA-Monsanto Collusion

    By Carey Gillam A new court filing made on behalf of dozens of people claiming Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide gave them cancer includes information about alleged efforts within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to protect Monsanto’s interests and unfairly aid the agrichemical industry. Judge Blocks Monsanto's Bid to Stop California From Listing Glyphosate as Carcinogenic […]

    Monsanto and EPA Seek to Keep Talks About Glyphosate Cancer Review a Secret

    Monsanto and EPA Seek to Keep Talks About Glyphosate Cancer Review a Secret

    By Carey Gillam Monsanto and officials within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are fighting legal efforts aimed at exploring Monsanto’s level of influence over regulatory assessments of the key chemical in the company’s Roundup herbicide, new federal court filings show. The revelations are contained in a series of filings made within the last few […]

    New USDA Data Shows 85% of Foods Tested Have Pesticide Residues

    New USDA Data Shows 85% of Foods Tested Have Pesticide Residues

    By Carey Gillam As Americans gather with their families for Thanksgiving this week, new government data offers a potentially unappetizing assessment of the U.S. food supply—Residues of many types of bug-killing pesticides, fungicides and weed killing chemicals have been found in roughly 85 percent of thousands of foods tested. Data released last week by the […]

    EPA Bows to Industry in Delay of Glyphosate Cancer Review

    EPA Bows to Industry in Delay of Glyphosate Cancer Review

    By Carey Gillam The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was slated to hold four days of public meetings, Oct. 18-21, focused on essentially one question: Is glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, safe? However, the EPA Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) meetings were “postponed,” just four days before they were suppose to meet, after intense […]