A day after landmark ruling from the US Supreme Court stripped consumers of a key pathway for suing pesticide companies, legal experts said while the decision is a blow for people who blame injuries on pesticide exposure, it’s not a knock-out punch.
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of the former Monsanto company in a closely watched case that limits people’s ability to sue pesticide companies for alleged illnesses or injuries. TNL editor-in-chief Carey Gillam talks to George Kimbrell of the Center for Food Safety about the decision.
The US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the former Monsanto company in a closely watched case that limits people’s ability to sue pesticide companies for alleged illnesses or injuries.
A New York man has filed a lawsuit blaming exposure to Dow Chemical’s once-commonly used insecticide chlorpyrifos for his development of Parkinson’s disease, a claim that adds a new twist to an explosion of litigation over alleged pesticide impacts on human health.
A federal judge has rejected efforts to slow the progress of a $7.25 billion class action settlement in the nationwide Roundup cancer litigation, notching a win for Roundup maker Bayer but frustrating a group of plaintiffs’ attorneys who claim the deal is unfair to cancer patients.
Katherine Levy remembers a childhood deeply rooted in the natural offerings of Lake Tahoe. Now she’s among a group of area residents battling a US government plan to spray herbicides, including the cancer-linked glyphosate weed killer – on property near the community’s cherished lake.
TNL Editor in Chief Carey Gillam joins the radio show KZFR radio’s Ecotopia show to discuss the current legal landscape around Bayer and glyphosate.
The New Lede Editor-in-Chief Carey Gillam talked with attorney and consumer advocate Whitney di Bona from Drugwatch about a flurry of recent legal maneuvers in the battle over Bayer’s proposed $7.25 billion class action settlement of Roundup litigation.
Wide consumption of ultra-processed foods is the product of a corporate playbook drawn up by “Big Tobacco” decades ago that is contributing to a rising tide of health problems, according to a series of papers published Wednesday by the American Journal of Public Health.
The University of Iowa on Wednesday announced the launch of a statewide research initiative aimed at understanding how environmental exposures may be causing a range of dire health problems experienced by people around the state