This week’s events will mark the first time that the science used to justify certain pesticides will be analyzed under...
Tag: Monsanto
California Court Blocks State Agriculture Department From Spraying Pesticides
In a win for environmental and public health advocates, a California court has halted a program that allows the state…...
Monsanto loses bid to stop Arkansas ban on farm chemical
An Arkansas judge on Friday dismissed a Monsanto Co lawsuit aiming to stop Arkansas from blocking the use of a...
Monsanto’s Fingerprints All Over Newsweek’s Opinion Piece, a Hit on Organic Food
By Stacy Malkan “The campaign for organic food is a deceitful, expensive scam,” according to a Jan. 19 Newsweek articleauthored by Dr. Henry...
Victory! Monsanto Shill Michael Dourson Withdraws After Public Outcry
The Center for Food Safety heralded reports that Michael Dourson, President Trump’s controversial nominee to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of...
Bloomberg: Monsanto Cancer Suits Turn to EPA Deputy’s ‘Suspicious’ Role
A former Environmental Protection Agency official may not be able to escape testifying about his alleged role in helping Monsanto to suppress inquiries...
Monsanto Giving Cash to Farmers Who Use Controversial Pesticide
Looks like Monsanto really wants farmers to use XtendiMax. The agribusiness giant is offering a cash incentive to farmers to apply a...
Seeds of disaster: Burkina Faso’s troubles with Monsanto’s GM cotton
Bobo-Dioulasso — In 2000, farmers in Burkina Faso, Africa’s top cotton grower, were desperate. Their cotton fetched top prices because...
Greens/EFA Group Set to Refer Glyphosate Licence Renewal to European Court of Justice
The Greens/EFA group will try to build a majority in the European Parliament to refer the European Commission’s decision to...
Environmentalists say they’ll try to sue German, EU authorities over glyphosate
Environmentalist groups said on Monday that Germany and the European Union had broken the rules when assessing the safety of...