The most common pesticides in agriculture and gardening can reduce male fertility, according to a new study. The new meta-analysis reviewed 25 past studies spanning decades, consisting of 1,700 male participants in total. It found that the most common pesticides used today, specifically organophosphates (OPs) and N-methyl carbamates (NMCs), reduce the sperm count in men. […]
Oregon announced a $698 million settlement with Bio-Tech company Monsanto over its use of dangerous chemicals known as PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). The lawsuit, headed by Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, saw a settlement for Monsanto’s role in polluting the state for almost a century, said a release from the Oregon Department of Justice. The company was […]
ST. LOUIS—A Chinese national who pleaded guilty earlier this year to stealing a trade secret from agribusiness giant Monsanto while he worked in Missouri has been sentenced to more than two years in prison. Haitao Xiang, formerly of Chesterfield, Missouri, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in St. Louis to 29 months in prison and […]
A jury on May 13 ordered agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. to pay a combined $2.055 billion to a couple claiming that the company’s popular weed killer Roundup Ready caused their cancers. The jury’s verdict is the third such courtroom loss for Monsanto in California since August, but a San Francisco law professor said it’s likely […]
SAN FRANCISCO—A U.S. jury on March 27 awarded more than $80 million in damages to a California man who blamed Roundup weed killer for his cancer, in a case that his attorneys say could help determine the fate of hundreds of similar lawsuits. Edwin Hardeman proved that Roundup’s design was defective, it lacked sufficient cancer […]
An environmental advocacy group is raising the alarm on dozens of breakfast cereals and snack bars, saying they contain trace amounts of a controversial chemical found in weed killers. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) stated in a new report that 26 of the 28 products it tested had levels of glyphosate, that were “higher than […]
NEW YORK—Bayer AG unit Monsanto faces long odds on an appeal blaming an “inflamed” jury and “junk science” for a verdict of $289 million in damages to a man who said the company’s Roundup weed killer caused his cancer, according to some legal experts. Last week’s verdict ended the first trial over whether glyphosate, the […]
A California jury on Aug. 10 found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay US$289 million in damages. The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging glyphosate causes […]
BOBO-DIOULASSO, Burkina Faso—In 2000, farmers in Burkina Faso, Africa’s top cotton grower, were desperate. Their cotton fetched top prices because its high-quality fiber lent a luxurious sheen to clothing and bedsheets. But pests—bollworms—were threatening the crop. Even when you dropped the bollworm larvae into a bucket of poison, farmers said, they kept swimming. U.S. seeds […]
Environmental group Friends of the Earth staged a protest outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on March 30. The protesters are against the merging plans of German drug and crop chemical maker Bayer and U.S. seeds company Monsanto. The activists called the merger a ‘marriage made in hell,’ with two people dressed up as […]
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A judge has ruled that California can require Monsanto to label its popular weed-killer Roundup as a possible cancer threat despite insistence from the agrochemical company that it poses no risk to people. Superior Court Judge Kristi Culver Kapetan in January tentatively dismissed a challenge by Monsanto and a citrus growers […]
