weed killer
03/10/2022
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By Kevin Hughes
600+ lawsuits linking Syngenta’s weed killer to Parkinson’s set to proceed
After Monsanto Co. suffered its first courtroom loss over charges that its glyphosate weed killer causes cancer and that the company hid the risks, it is now Syngenta’s turn. The mass crime machinery that brought down Monsanto has fixed its view on the Chinese-owned, Switzerland-based agrochemical titan Syngenta and its selling of a weed killer known as paraquat. (Related: Lawsuits piling in against […]
12/16/2021
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By Ethan Huff
Cost of doing business? Monsanto pleads guilty to 30 environmental crimes, agrees to pay measly $12 million fine
The Monsanto Company agreed to plead guilty to 30 environmental crimes related to the use of a pesticide on cornfields in Hawaii, court documents filed in the state earlier this month show. Monsanto admitted in a plea agreement that it committed 30 misdemeanor crimes related to the use of a glufosinate ammonium-based product sold under […]
02/08/2021
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By News Editors
Glyphosate endangers wildlife, too. Tell the EPA to ban it
Your actions, based on the following information, could alter the future of our planet. (Article by Zen Honeycutt republished from ChildrensHealthDefense.org) Glyphosate herbicides are among the most widely used agrochemicals in the world. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), more than 300 million pounds are used in the U.S. each year — 280 million pounds of which […]
05/14/2019
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By Mike Adams
Monsanto / Bayer faces financial annihilation after third court loss, $2 billion in damages stemming from residential use of Roundup (glyphosate) weed killer
Monsanto was acquired last June by Bayer, a chemical corporation whose chairperson was found guilty of crimes against humanity during the post-Nazi-era Nuremberg trials. Bayer was complicit in the chemical experimentation on Jews and the carrying out of the Holocaust, it turns out. In the decades that followed, Bayer (formerly IG Farben) found a way […]
10/18/2017
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By Cassie B.
Researchers struggle to find effective way to mitigate damage done by atrazine, a common weedkiller known to harm human health, wildlife, aquatic life
The widely used weed killer atrazine has long been wreaking havoc on the planet, affecting not only human health but that of wildlife and aquatic life. Just how bad is it? The chemical was banned in the European Union 15 years ago because of its “ubiquitous and unpreventable” contamination, yet somehow it is still used […]
06/26/2017
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By Mike Adams
California declares glyphosate weed killer (Roundup) to be a cancer-causing poison; will add to Proposition 65 warning list
In a significant victory for consumer safety — and a devastating blow to Monsanto — California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has declared that glyphosate weed killer is a known, cancer-causing carcinogen that will be added to the scope of Proposition 65. Glyphosate weed killer, also sold under the Roundup brand name by […]
03/22/2017
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By Amy Goodrich
Unsealed court documents prove EPA produces “fake science” to conceal extreme dangers of toxic herbicides
Glyphosate has been the subject of many heated debates. While the World Health Organization (WHO) has linked this controversial chemical — used in Monsanto’s best-selling Roundup weed killer — to cancer and other diseases, others firmly deny any potential risk. Recently, the U.S. Right to Know website has revealed a series of bombshell court documents […]
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