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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, August 16, 2024
Bayer is sticking to its legal strategy of trying individual Roundup cases in court, even as a series of recent losses has some investors and plaintiffs’ lawyers questioning the wisdom of that approach.
A coalition of biofuels groups is pushing back at a federal appeals court ruling. The 5th U.S. Circuit of Appeals last week vacated multiple denials of small refinery exemption requests from the biofuel blending mandates, ruling that the agency had used an “impermissibly retroactive” standard.
Biotech plant developers are pleased with a proposal from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to create five new regulatory exemptions for genetically modified plants.
A federal jury in Illinois has found two large egg producers and trade associations liable for conspiring to restrict supply and drive up egg prices, in a dispute the judge in the case said pitted “the nation’s egg makers against its egg breakers.”
Glyphosate will be renewed for another 10 years in the European Union after member states could not reach the required majority to reauthorize use of the chemical, the active ingredient in Roundup.