Tag: glyphosate

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2020 - 09:46 UTC

  Roundup weedkiller and cancer decision, appealed by Bayer at California Supreme Court

  

  Bayer AG has asked California’s Supreme Court to review a decision awarding US$ 20.5 million to a groundskeeper who claimed the company’s Roundup weedkiller caused his cancer, arguing the ruling was at odds with federal law and settled legal principles.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  US Environmental Protection Agency states that glyphosate in not a carcinogenic

  

  The US Environmental Protection Agency said it finished a regulatory review that found glyphosate, the most widely used weed killer in the United States, is not a carcinogen.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 21:44 UTC

  US Environment agency reaffirms glyphosate does not cause cancer; contradicts California court verdict

  

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department said a federal appeals court should reverse a lower court verdict finding Bayer AG liable in the case of a California man who blamed its Roundup weed killer for his cancer.

• Thursday, October 31st 2019 - 09:41 UTC

  Bayer says farmers remain loyal to glyphosate herbicides

  

  Bayer, the world's largest maker of seeds and pesticides, said U.S. farmers were unperturbed by lawsuits seeking damages from Bayer for an alleged cancer-causing effect of glyphosate-based herbicides.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  German farmers protest new agricultural policy which promotes organic practices

  

  Thousands of farmers drove their tractors into German cities on Tuesday, in protest at the government's new agricultural policies which they say will hurt their livelihoods and make them scapegoats for climate change.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  US lawsuit related to glyphosate herbicide has been delayed to 20 February

  

  A pending US lawsuit over claims related to Bayer's glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup has been delayed, the company said on Sunday with a new court date set for February 2020.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 08:10 UTC

  French mayors propose pesticide-free buffer zones around residential areas

  

  France is looking at introducing pesticide-free buffer zones around housing areas after several local mayors defied the government by banning weed killers such as glyphosate in their towns.

• Saturday, August 10th 2019 - 06:48 UTC

  US eliminates cancer warning labels from the controversial glyphosate weed killer

  

  US Environmental Protection Agency has said it will no longer approve warning labels that claim the controversial herbicide glyphosate causes cancer, calling the statement “false and misleading.”

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Glyphosate case: US Judge lowers damage award against Bayer

  

  A U.S. judge on Tuesday said he would reduce a US$80 million damage award against Bayer AG to US$50 million or less in the case of a man who blamed his cancer on glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said the jury's US$75 million punitive damages award to plaintiff Edwin Hardeman in March could not stand.

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 08:50 UTC

  Angela Merkel, despite Bayer anticipates the end of weed-killer glyphosate

  

  The use of Bayer's contested weed-killer glyphosate, the subject of more than 10,000 lawsuits in the US over claims it causes cancer, will eventually die out, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the country's lower house on Wednesday.