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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
The largest Native American philanthropic institution in history has been set up to distribute $266 million awarded to Indian farmers and ranchers as part of a 2011 settlement with USDA.
A jury has awarded a former school groundskeeper who has cancer $289.2 million in compensatory and punitive damages after finding that Monsanto failed to warn him of the dangers posed by his use of the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has given the Environmental Protection Agency 60 days to revoke all food tolerances and cancel all registrations for the widely used insecticide chlorpyrifos.
A jury in California state court adjourned Wednesday without reaching a verdict in a case in which a school groundskeeper is seeking more than $400 million to compensate for developing cancer after being exposed to the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup.
A federal jury has awarded $473.5 million in damages to six North Carolinians, agreeing with them that odors from a Pender County hog farm were bad enough that they interfered with their right to enjoy their property.
Ethanol advocates applauded a Trump administration proposal released today that would freeze fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks through model year 2026.
BASF has completed its acquisition of most of the businesses and assets from Bayer that the company was required to divest as part of its purchase of Monsanto.
A Trump administration effort to change the way pesticides are reviewed under the Endangered Species Act turned six months old Tuesday with little to show for its brief existence.
Bayer is appealing a European Union court ruling that upheld EU member countries' decision to prohibit the use of three neonicotinoid insecticides as seed or soil treatment for most major crops.
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation should list chlorpyrifos as a toxic air contaminant, a state scientific panel has recommended following review of a comprehensive risk assessment of the widely used insecticide.
