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  1. Typique! Typique du CN, entreprise très largement délinquante et absolument irrespectueuse du grand public, de l'environnement et de la santé publique, avec la bénédiction de l'État fédéral. C’est une vraie honte, que dis-je, un scandale.
    Le CN pulvérise de l’herbicide sans préavis dans Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | Radio-Canada
    ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2
    #canada #canadiannational #montreal #mtl #santepublique #environnement #glyphosate #pesticides

  2. Typique! Typique du CN, entreprise très largement délinquante et absolument irrespectueuse du grand public, de l'environnement et de la santé publique, avec la bénédiction de l'État fédéral. C’est une vraie honte, que dis-je, un scandale.
    Le CN pulvérise de l’herbicide sans préavis dans Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | Radio-Canada
    ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2
    #canada #canadiannational #montreal #mtl #santepublique #environnement #glyphosate #pesticides

  3. First Nation communities in Ontario issued a moratorium on glyphosates because, among other things, they increase risk of forest fires. The glyphosate was sprayed anyway.

    Entire Indigenous communities have been destroyed in these fires. No aid was sent.

    cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/gly
    #glyphosate #ForestFire #Wildfires #Ontario #Indigenous #Indigedon

  4. First Nation communities in Ontario issued a moratorium on glyphosates because, among other things, they increase risk of forest fires. The glyphosate was sprayed anyway.

    Entire Indigenous communities have been destroyed in these fires. No aid was sent.

    cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/gly
    #glyphosate #ForestFire #Wildfires #Ontario #Indigenous #Indigedon

  5. Presence of #glyphosate in food distributed through social programs aimed at vulnerable populations in Peru and Uruguay. Glyphosate residues found in significant proportion of the analyzed foods, with concentrations exceeding maximum residue limits in some cases. revistas.unla.edu.ar/saludcole

  6. Pesticide makers stack wins against US environmental, public health groups—with the help of Trump. Trump's administration seems to have ​decided "our constituency is these big farmers and pesticide companies"—not MAHA. Industry wins on #glyphosate #dicamba and #atrazine reuters.com/legal/government/p

  7. Bayer (XTRA:BAYN) Could Be 21% Undervalued Following Glyphosate Backlash

    Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St’s investing ideas for…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Bayer #clinicaltrial #fairvalue #Glyphosate #totalshareholderreturn
    europesays.com/germany/52058/

  8. Another study, published in the journal Pediatrics by the American Academy of Pediatrics, raises serious concerns about children’s dietary exposure to #pesticides — particularly the weed killer #glyphosate — that are heavily used in the production of genetically engineered crops.

  9. Nationwide Mobilization: Require Pesticide Product Manufacturers To Provide Warning Labels of Potential Effects like Cancer. Resources for taking action to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court #glyphosate decision beyondpesticides.org/resources

  10. Nationwide Mobilization: Require Pesticide Product Manufacturers To Provide Warning Labels of Potential Effects like Cancer. Resources for taking action to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court #glyphosate decision beyondpesticides.org/resources

  11. People in Lake Tahoe are concerned about a government plan to use weed killers on public land for reforestation efforts. #glyphosate

    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

  12. Bayer shifts US glyphosate business to Ruveon after seeking tariffs on Chinese imports

    July 1 (Reuters) – Bayer said on Wednesday it is consolidating its U.S. glyphosate business into ‌its Ruveon…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Bayer #Chineseimports #Glyphosate
    europesays.com/germany/47938/

  13. Roundup Wins! :olavo:

    "U.S. Senator Cory Booker, public health experts and cancer advocates joined a virtual press event hosted by Protect Our Care and 314 Action in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision today in Monsanto Company v. Durnellz: AT ISSUE: “The Supreme Court ruled in favor of industry and the Trump administration by effectively granting Donald Trump’s big chemical industry donors blanket immunity from state-based liability claims involving the cancer-linked glyphosate chemical found in Roundup pesticides. In the administration’s latest betrayal of the MAHA movement, Trump’s DOJ filed an amicus brief in support of Monsanto – now owned by Bayer — and Trump’s Principal Deputy Solicitor General argued alongside the chemical maker in court. The decision is also a major affront to cancer survivors, now denied a pathway to damages for any injuries and financial costs they may have endured following exposure to glyphosate.”

    #pesticides #glyphosate #Roundup #Bayer #Monsanto #cancer #health #Trump
    pressenza.com/2026/07/roundup-

  14. Roundup Wins! :olavo:

    "U.S. Senator Cory Booker, public health experts and cancer advocates joined a virtual press event hosted by Protect Our Care and 314 Action in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision today in Monsanto Company v. Durnellz: AT ISSUE: “The Supreme Court ruled in favor of industry and the Trump administration by effectively granting Donald Trump’s big chemical industry donors blanket immunity from state-based liability claims involving the cancer-linked glyphosate chemical found in Roundup pesticides. In the administration’s latest betrayal of the MAHA movement, Trump’s DOJ filed an amicus brief in support of Monsanto – now owned by Bayer — and Trump’s Principal Deputy Solicitor General argued alongside the chemical maker in court. The decision is also a major affront to cancer survivors, now denied a pathway to damages for any injuries and financial costs they may have endured following exposure to glyphosate.”

    #pesticides #glyphosate #Roundup #Bayer #Monsanto #cancer #health #Trump
    pressenza.com/2026/07/roundup-

  15. Roundup Wins! :olavo:

    "U.S. Senator Cory Booker, public health experts and cancer advocates joined a virtual press event hosted by Protect Our Care and 314 Action in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision today in Monsanto Company v. Durnellz: AT ISSUE: “The Supreme Court ruled in favor of industry and the Trump administration by effectively granting Donald Trump’s big chemical industry donors blanket immunity from state-based liability claims involving the cancer-linked glyphosate chemical found in Roundup pesticides. In the administration’s latest betrayal of the MAHA movement, Trump’s DOJ filed an amicus brief in support of Monsanto – now owned by Bayer — and Trump’s Principal Deputy Solicitor General argued alongside the chemical maker in court. The decision is also a major affront to cancer survivors, now denied a pathway to damages for any injuries and financial costs they may have endured following exposure to glyphosate.”

    #pesticides #glyphosate #Roundup #Bayer #Monsanto #cancer #health #Trump
    pressenza.com/2026/07/roundup-

  16. Roundup Wins! :olavo:

    "U.S. Senator Cory Booker, public health experts and cancer advocates joined a virtual press event hosted by Protect Our Care and 314 Action in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision today in Monsanto Company v. Durnellz: AT ISSUE: “The Supreme Court ruled in favor of industry and the Trump administration by effectively granting Donald Trump’s big chemical industry donors blanket immunity from state-based liability claims involving the cancer-linked glyphosate chemical found in Roundup pesticides. In the administration’s latest betrayal of the MAHA movement, Trump’s DOJ filed an amicus brief in support of Monsanto – now owned by Bayer — and Trump’s Principal Deputy Solicitor General argued alongside the chemical maker in court. The decision is also a major affront to cancer survivors, now denied a pathway to damages for any injuries and financial costs they may have endured following exposure to glyphosate.”

    #pesticides #glyphosate #Roundup #Bayer #Monsanto #cancer #health #Trump
    pressenza.com/2026/07/roundup-

  17. Roundup Wins! :olavo:

    "U.S. Senator Cory Booker, public health experts and cancer advocates joined a virtual press event hosted by Protect Our Care and 314 Action in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court decision today in Monsanto Company v. Durnellz: AT ISSUE: “The Supreme Court ruled in favor of industry and the Trump administration by effectively granting Donald Trump’s big chemical industry donors blanket immunity from state-based liability claims involving the cancer-linked glyphosate chemical found in Roundup pesticides. In the administration’s latest betrayal of the MAHA movement, Trump’s DOJ filed an amicus brief in support of Monsanto – now owned by Bayer — and Trump’s Principal Deputy Solicitor General argued alongside the chemical maker in court. The decision is also a major affront to cancer survivors, now denied a pathway to damages for any injuries and financial costs they may have endured following exposure to glyphosate.”

    #pesticides #glyphosate #Roundup #Bayer #Monsanto #cancer #health #Trump
    pressenza.com/2026/07/roundup-

  18. Now the Supreme Court has given Bayer legal immunity for failing to disclose glyphosate’s cancer risk, Bayer wants tariffs imposed on #glyphosate imports to improve its market share. U.S. ag groups aren’t happy because of the impact on their input costs. farms.com/ag-industry-news/bay

  19. Bayer-Monsanto seeks duties on Chinese glyphosate imports, drawing opposition from farm groups | Local News

    Monsanto and parent company, Bayer, have asked federal trade officials to investigate glyphosate imports from China and impose…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Bayer #agriculture #antidumping #antidumpingduties #China #farmgroups #farmers #Glyphosate #herbicide #import #importduties #Monsanto #Roundup #tradeduties #tradeinvestigation
    europesays.com/germany/46210/

  20. Roundup lawsuits dealt blow after Supreme Court backs Bayer

    Bayer has won a major US Supreme Court victory that could sharply limit thousands of Roundup lawsuits over…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Bayer #Glyphosate #Monsanto #Roundup #Rounduplawsuits #USSupremeCourt
    europesays.com/germany/45763/

  21. #frg #usa #israel #lebanon : #militaryinvasion / #warfare / #warcrime / #interntuonallaw / #tnc / #bayer / #monsanto / #ngo / #cbg / #hrw / #medicointernational

    »Israel previously 'tested' internationally banned #whitephosphorus in densely populated areas across #Gaza. (…)

    “There is strong evidence that phosphorus used in the Middle East war comes from Bayer’s #glyphosate production facility in Soda Springs in the United States.”«

    thecradle.co/articles-id/38507

  22. #frg #usa #israel #lebanon : #militaryinvasion / #warfare / #warcrime / #interntuonallaw / #tnc / #bayer / #monsanto / #ngo / #cbg / #hrw / #medicointernational

    »Israel previously 'tested' internationally banned #whitephosphorus in densely populated areas across #Gaza. (…)

    “There is strong evidence that phosphorus used in the Middle East war comes from Bayer’s #glyphosate production facility in Soda Springs in the United States.”«

    thecradle.co/articles-id/38507

  23. #frg #usa #israel #lebanon : #militaryinvasion / #warfare / #warcrime / #interntuonallaw / #tnc / #bayer / #monsanto / #ngo / #cbg / #hrw / #medicointernational

    »Israel previously 'tested' internationally banned #whitephosphorus in densely populated areas across #Gaza. (…)

    “There is strong evidence that phosphorus used in the Middle East war comes from Bayer’s #glyphosate production facility in Soda Springs in the United States.”«

    thecradle.co/articles-id/38507

  24. #frg #usa #israel #lebanon : #militaryinvasion / #warfare / #warcrime / #interntuonallaw / #tnc / #bayer / #monsanto / #ngo / #cbg / #hrw / #medicointernational

    »Israel previously 'tested' internationally banned #whitephosphorus in densely populated areas across #Gaza. (…)

    “There is strong evidence that phosphorus used in the Middle East war comes from Bayer’s #glyphosate production facility in Soda Springs in the United States.”«

    thecradle.co/articles-id/38507

  25. #frg #usa #israel #lebanon : #militaryinvasion / #warfare / #warcrime / #interntuonallaw / #tnc / #bayer / #monsanto / #ngo / #cbg / #hrw / #medicointernational

    »Israel previously 'tested' internationally banned #whitephosphorus in densely populated areas across #Gaza. (…)

    “There is strong evidence that phosphorus used in the Middle East war comes from Bayer’s #glyphosate production facility in Soda Springs in the United States.”«

    thecradle.co/articles-id/38507

  26. Marjorie Taylor Greene Says It Is ‘Awful’ That ‘No One Is Standing Up For Cancer Patients’ After Bayer Scores Roundup Victory In Supreme Court

    Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Former…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Bayer #BayerAG #cancerpatients #DonaldTrump #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Glyphosate #JusticeBrettKavanaugh #MarjorieTaylorGreene #Monsanto #realestate #SupremeCourt
    europesays.com/germany/44645/

  27. Bayer Stock Jumps—Ruled Not Liable In Cancer Risk Case Involving Roundup Weedkiller

    Topline The Supreme Court ruled in favor of former agrochemical giant Monsanto on Thursday in a dispute over…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Bayer #Courtruling #doesroundupcausecancer #Glyphosate #monsantolegalliability #monsantov.durnell #Opinion #Roundup #SupremeCourt #weedkiller
    europesays.com/germany/44193/

  28. Supreme Court sides with Bayer in landmark pesticide-labeling case

    The US Supreme Court ruled in a 7–2 decision Thursday that under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and…
    #Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #Bayer #Glyphosate #label #litigation #Monsanto #Pesticides #Roundup
    europesays.com/germany/44175/

  29. #Pesticides : la Cour suprême des #ÉtatsUnis a rendue jeudi une décision qui pourrait délester #Bayer de dizaines de milliers de plaintes liées à son désherbant à base de #glyphosate, le #Roundup. Il a été estimé que l'entreprise ne pouvait être tenue responsable de l'absence de mise en garde relative à un risque de #cancer france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9riques Cette même multinationale produit des médicaments... anticancéreux. Du cynisme à l’état pur reporterre.net/Bayer-vend-des-

    #sante #actu #actualite #info

  30. #Pesticides : la Cour suprême des #ÉtatsUnis a rendue jeudi une décision qui pourrait délester #Bayer de dizaines de milliers de plaintes liées à son désherbant à base de #glyphosate, le #Roundup. Il a été estimé que l'entreprise ne pouvait être tenue responsable de l'absence de mise en garde relative à un risque de #cancer france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9riques Cette même multinationale produit des médicaments... anticancéreux. Du cynisme à l’état pur reporterre.net/Bayer-vend-des-

    #sante #actu #actualite #info

  31. Update. "Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against the maker of #Roundup weedkiller."
    apnews.com/article/supreme-cou

    The court ruled for #Monsanto because the #EPA said Roundup (#glyphosate) was harmless, not because the 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 said it was harmless. There's good evidence that that the EPA decision was flawed, if not cynical. It relied on studies written mostly by Monsanto staffers and the lead article has been retracted.

    Here's the #SCOTUS decision itself.
    supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pd

    The upside: The #RepublicanSchism will deepen. Some #MAGA voters side with the Trump EPA friendliness to corporate polluters. Others (including #RFKJr when he could speak freely) side with #MAHA opposition to glyphosate.

    The downside: More people will die from this poison.

    #GoldStandardScience #Medicine #Misconduct #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  32. Update. "Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against the maker of #Roundup weedkiller."
    apnews.com/article/supreme-cou

    The court ruled for #Monsanto because the #EPA said Roundup (#glyphosate) was harmless, not because the 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 said it was harmless. There's good evidence that that the EPA decision was flawed, if not cynical. It relied on studies written mostly by Monsanto staffers and the lead article has been retracted.

    Here's the #SCOTUS decision itself.
    supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pd

    The upside: The #RepublicanSchism will deepen. Some #MAGA voters side with the Trump EPA friendliness to corporate polluters. Others (including #RFKJr when he could speak freely) side with #MAHA opposition to glyphosate.

    The downside: More people will die from this poison.

    #GoldStandardScience #Medicine #Misconduct #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  33. Update. "Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against the maker of #Roundup weedkiller."
    apnews.com/article/supreme-cou

    The court ruled for #Monsanto because the #EPA said Roundup (#glyphosate) was harmless, not because the 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 said it was harmless. There's good evidence that that the EPA decision was flawed, if not cynical. It relied on studies written mostly by Monsanto staffers and the lead article has been retracted.

    Here's the #SCOTUS decision itself.
    supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pd

    The upside: The #RepublicanSchism will deepen. Some #MAGA voters side with the Trump EPA friendliness to corporate polluters. Others (including #RFKJr when he could speak freely) side with #MAHA opposition to glyphosate.

    The downside: More people will die from this poison.

    #GoldStandardScience #Medicine #Misconduct #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  34. Update. "Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against the maker of #Roundup weedkiller."
    apnews.com/article/supreme-cou

    The court ruled for #Monsanto because the #EPA said Roundup (#glyphosate) was harmless, not because the 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 said it was harmless. There's good evidence that that the EPA decision was flawed, if not cynical. It relied on studies written mostly by Monsanto staffers and the lead article has been retracted.

    Here's the #SCOTUS decision itself.
    supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pd

    The upside: The #RepublicanSchism will deepen. Some #MAGA voters side with the Trump EPA friendliness to corporate polluters. Others (including #RFKJr when he could speak freely) side with #MAHA opposition to glyphosate.

    The downside: More people will die from this poison.

    #GoldStandardScience #Medicine #Misconduct #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  35. Update. "Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against the maker of #Roundup weedkiller."
    apnews.com/article/supreme-cou

    The court ruled for #Monsanto because the #EPA said Roundup (#glyphosate) was harmless, not because the 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 said it was harmless. There's good evidence that that the EPA decision was flawed, if not cynical. It relied on studies written mostly by Monsanto staffers and the lead article has been retracted.

    Here's the #SCOTUS decision itself.
    supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pd

    The upside: The #RepublicanSchism will deepen. Some #MAGA voters side with the Trump EPA friendliness to corporate polluters. Others (including #RFKJr when he could speak freely) side with #MAHA opposition to glyphosate.

    The downside: More people will die from this poison.

    #GoldStandardScience #Medicine #Misconduct #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

  36. Supreme Court blocks thousands of suits claiming Roundup causes cancer - The Washington Post
    archive.ph/TRpMY

    #SCOTUS #USA #RoundUp #Glyphosate

  37. Supreme Court blocks thousands of suits claiming Roundup causes cancer - The Washington Post
    archive.ph/TRpMY

    #SCOTUS #USA #RoundUp #Glyphosate

  38. #SupremeCourt Rejects Lawsuit Alleging #Roundup #Weedkiller Caused #Cancer

    The court’s decision is likely to determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against #Bayer, which manufactures the weedkiller, over similar claims.

    By Abbie VanSickle
    June 25, 2026, 10:50 a.m. ET

    "The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the manufacturer of the weedkiller Roundup, overturning a jury award for a Missouri man who claimed the widely used herbicide caused cancer in a decision that could have sweeping impacts on thousands of other Americans who similarly claim the product sickened them.

    In the 7-to-2 decision, written by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, the majority found that a federal law that regulates pesticides barred the Missouri man’s lawsuit.

    Justice Kavanaugh wrote that the Missouri case would “require a cancer warning on Roundup’s label,” which would directly conflict with the label required by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Because of this conflict, he wrote, federal law “expressly pre-empts” the Missouri man’s claim.

    The dispute focused on a single case, a $1.25 million award for John Durnell, a gardener in St. Louis who had used Roundup for decades and claimed that years of exposure to the product led him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a blood cancer. Mr. Durnell claimed that the company had failed to warn consumers of the dangers of the product.

    The ramifications of the decision could be enormous, potentially jeopardizing thousands of lawsuits pending in state and federal courts against Bayer, the German company that acquired Roundup’s original maker, #Monsanto, in 2018.

    The legal question before the justices focused on a narrow slice of the broader litigation: whether Bayer can be sued in state-level courts given that a federal agency decided not to issue a warning label for the weedkiller.

    The Environmental Protection Agency, which is in charge of labeling pesticides throughout the country, has determined Roundup is safe. Bayer claims that the finding, which allows Roundup to be sold without a warning label, should override claims by Mr. Durnell and others that under state laws, they were injured by the product.

    The Trump administration joined the case on Bayer’s side, reversing the position taken by the Biden administration. The Trump administration’s support for the Roundup manufacturer has been controversial among the Make America Healthy Again movement, whose activists had largely supported the president’s political rise.

    Government lawyers asserted that once the E.P.A. determined Roundup was safe, Bayer was in fact required to abide by the agency’s decision in its product labeling.

    If the company had tried to unilaterally change the product’s label, they argued, it would have violated the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.

    Roundup, which was created by Monsanto in the 1970s, is one of the most popular weedkillers in the world. But concerns over one of its active ingredients — a chemical called #glyphosate that is absorbed by plants, traveling into their roots and blocking an enzyme used for their growth — have prompted one of the biggest waves of class-action lawsuits in U.S. history.

    Evidence in lab animals, along with more limited evidence in humans, has shown a link between glyphosate and cancer, and a 2015 report by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified it as “probably #carcinogenic to humans.”

    The E.P.A. has studied the chemical and determined a cancer warning was not necessary. In February 2020, the agency announced findings that “there are no risks of concern to human health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label” and that the chemical was “unlikely” to cause cancer in humans.

    After a court challenge, the #EPA withdrew those findings and the chemical’s safety currently remains under formal review.

    In his lawsuit, Mr. Durnell said the company should be liable for failing to warn users about the risks of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma from exposure to glyphosate.

    In 2023, a jury in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, a state court, sided with Mr. Durnell. The company appealed the case, which eventually landed at the Supreme Court."

    nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/poli

    #USPol #EPAFail #SCOTUSIsCompromised #ImpeachClarenceThomas #ImpeachSamuelAlito #SCOTUS #RoundupKills

  39. #SupremeCourt Rejects Lawsuit Alleging #Roundup #Weedkiller Caused #Cancer

    The court’s decision is likely to determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against #Bayer, which manufactures the weedkiller, over similar claims.

    By Abbie VanSickle
    June 25, 2026, 10:50 a.m. ET

    "The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the manufacturer of the weedkiller Roundup, overturning a jury award for a Missouri man who claimed the widely used herbicide caused cancer in a decision that could have sweeping impacts on thousands of other Americans who similarly claim the product sickened them.

    In the 7-to-2 decision, written by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, the majority found that a federal law that regulates pesticides barred the Missouri man’s lawsuit.

    Justice Kavanaugh wrote that the Missouri case would “require a cancer warning on Roundup’s label,” which would directly conflict with the label required by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Because of this conflict, he wrote, federal law “expressly pre-empts” the Missouri man’s claim.

    The dispute focused on a single case, a $1.25 million award for John Durnell, a gardener in St. Louis who had used Roundup for decades and claimed that years of exposure to the product led him to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a blood cancer. Mr. Durnell claimed that the company had failed to warn consumers of the dangers of the product.

    The ramifications of the decision could be enormous, potentially jeopardizing thousands of lawsuits pending in state and federal courts against Bayer, the German company that acquired Roundup’s original maker, #Monsanto, in 2018.

    The legal question before the justices focused on a narrow slice of the broader litigation: whether Bayer can be sued in state-level courts given that a federal agency decided not to issue a warning label for the weedkiller.

    The Environmental Protection Agency, which is in charge of labeling pesticides throughout the country, has determined Roundup is safe. Bayer claims that the finding, which allows Roundup to be sold without a warning label, should override claims by Mr. Durnell and others that under state laws, they were injured by the product.

    The Trump administration joined the case on Bayer’s side, reversing the position taken by the Biden administration. The Trump administration’s support for the Roundup manufacturer has been controversial among the Make America Healthy Again movement, whose activists had largely supported the president’s political rise.

    Government lawyers asserted that once the E.P.A. determined Roundup was safe, Bayer was in fact required to abide by the agency’s decision in its product labeling.

    If the company had tried to unilaterally change the product’s label, they argued, it would have violated the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.

    Roundup, which was created by Monsanto in the 1970s, is one of the most popular weedkillers in the world. But concerns over one of its active ingredients — a chemical called #glyphosate that is absorbed by plants, traveling into their roots and blocking an enzyme used for their growth — have prompted one of the biggest waves of class-action lawsuits in U.S. history.

    Evidence in lab animals, along with more limited evidence in humans, has shown a link between glyphosate and cancer, and a 2015 report by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified it as “probably #carcinogenic to humans.”

    The E.P.A. has studied the chemical and determined a cancer warning was not necessary. In February 2020, the agency announced findings that “there are no risks of concern to human health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label” and that the chemical was “unlikely” to cause cancer in humans.

    After a court challenge, the #EPA withdrew those findings and the chemical’s safety currently remains under formal review.

    In his lawsuit, Mr. Durnell said the company should be liable for failing to warn users about the risks of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma from exposure to glyphosate.

    In 2023, a jury in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, a state court, sided with Mr. Durnell. The company appealed the case, which eventually landed at the Supreme Court."

    nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/poli

    #USPol #EPAFail #SCOTUSIsCompromised #ImpeachClarenceThomas #ImpeachSamuelAlito #SCOTUS #RoundupKills