Tag: Roundup

A move by the administration aligns federal power with pesticide manufacturers as thousands of cancer patients fight for their day in court.

This is the latest court battle Monsanto has faced over its herbicide.

John McKivison sued Bayer because he believes he developed cancer after using Roundup on his property for two decades,

Glyphosate was listed as a probable human carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015. 

Bayer said it plans to replace glyphosate-based weed-killing ingredients in products for non-professionals in the U.S. with alternative active ingredients in order to “manage litigation risk in the U.S.,” but not due to concerns about safety.

Bayer's decision comes in response to the many lawsuits related to glyphosate that it inherited when it acquired Monsanto in 2018.

The company will replace glyphosate in the consumer lawn and garden segment with other "known and well-established active ingredients."

“We will ask the court to deny this extraordinary request to paper over glyphosate’s ecological harms only to approve it anyway down the road. Time to face the music, not run and hide.”

“It’s a slam dunk for plaintiffs. This proves these claims are viable in the tort system.”

"Will the Biden administration fix this problem, or will it allow the EPA to continue its past practice of ignoring the real-world harms of pesticides?"