In Washington, a battle builds over a right to sue pesticide makers
It’s been seven years since Germany’s Bayer bought US agrochemical giant Monsanto, inheriting not only the company’s vast portfolio of seeds and pesticide products, but also more than 100,000 lawsuits alleging Monsanto’s popular Roundup herbicide causes cancer. Bayer has been working to put an end to the litigation and to block any future such cases.
