With the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Report, pesticide use that may harm children while helping farmers is quickly emerging as one of the battle lines.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. led the May 22 report, which aims to provide a unifying theory for troubling
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The U.S. Supreme Court is not taking the appeal of Edwin Hardeman v. Monsanto.
The first federal Roundup case tried before U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco, Hardeman v. Monsanto, returned a jury award of $80 million, which was subsequently reduced to $25 by the judge.
Along with
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Dicamba, the broad-spectrum herbicide first registered for farm use in 1967, will be back for the 2021 growing season under new label restrictions from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
This past spring, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit did an immediate withdrawal of the registrations of three
Continue Reading EPA gives dicamba five more years with additional restrictions
Activists and industry reps sat down twice with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to see if they could find a compromise about labeling food processed with genetic engineering. No compromise could be found, and it’s unlikely there will be a third meeting. That the negotiations broke down hardly came as
Continue Reading Ag secretary can’t find common ground for activists, industry on GE/GMO labels
