Pesticides are a key contributor to climate change – posing risks to the environment, public health, and food security – while their effectiveness is declining, according to a recent study.
Developed by Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA), the study describes a vicious cycle: pesticides add emissions to the air that contribute to climate change, and as temperatures rise,...
With the objective of “a fair, healthy, and environmentally respectful food system,” new rules proposed by the European Commission (EC), the executive branch of the European Union (EU), zero in on reducing the use of pesticides throughout the EU by 2030.
According to the Indian biweekly publication, Down to Earth, the proposed rules – part of the EC’s Farm to Fork...
Brian Lilla, an award-winning filmmaker, moved to the Napa Valley wine region to raise his children in a healthy environment. But as he saw Roundup applied vigorously to the vineyards spread throughout the area, he “learned how toxic wine country is.”
“I didn’t want to leave Napa because I have children,” Lilla said in an interview with the nonprofit publication Capital &...
One in three Americans have detectable levels of a toxic herbicide linked to cancer, birth defects and hormonal imbalances, a national study has found.
The herbicide, 2,4-D, was developed in the mid-1940s, and its use by both farmers and homeowners to control weeds has expanded since. As such, human exposure to the chemical has also increased. The chemical kills plants by changing the...
Despite environmental groups filing numerous pesticide lawsuits in 2017 and subsequent years, dicamba, a selective herbicide manufactured by Bayer, is still being used.
The chemical, which is in more than 1,100 products, was outlawed in June 2020 after a U.S. appeals court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to cancel dicamba registrations. The court noted the EPA had...
For years, Monsanto’s exposure to herbicide Roundup has been linked to cases of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. At issue is its key ingredient, a chemical called glyphosate, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer ruled as being “probably carcinogenic” and cancer causing in 2015. However, despite this, Roundup has never been sold with a warning label about its...
Roundup is a popular brand of weed killer. It uses herbicide to kill weeds and functions as a form of pesticide as well. The product uses chemicals intended to cause harm but in a controlled manner. The problem for Monsanto’s Roundup began with the false premise that the damage from a particularly harmful component, known as glyphosate, could be adequately controlled and limited to its...
In 2018, Bayer AG acquired the Monsanto Company in a $63 billion gambit. Today, it is deemed one of the worst corporate deals in recent memory following Bayer’s inheritance of Monsanto’s Roundup lawsuits. The parent company now seeks to distance itself from the concerns associated with the glyphosate-based herbicide by attempting to settle more than 100,000 court claims and future...
National plaintiffs’ law firm, Waters & Kraus, LLP, joins almost 100 law firms in amicus brief opposing proposed settlement of future Roundup claims.
The prospective danger of the popular herbicide Roundup has been known for years. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said that glyphosate—which is the world’s most commonly...
On October 24th, 2019, two Maui families filed a lawsuit against Monsanto and its parent corporation Bayer AG, alleging that the pesticides and herbicides developed by the company led to severe birth defects in their children. Living just a few hundred yards away from Monsanto’s genetically engineered seed facility in Kihei, both plaintiffs, Dana Fulton and Max Coleman, along with their...
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