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The Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Bayer

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Bayer gets the litigation relief it was looking for in the Monsanto Roundup case.

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Monsanto in its ongoing effort to contain its vast and growing litigation exposure stemming from its best-selling product, Roundup—the most popular weed killer in the world.  In a decision by Justice Kavanaugh (joined by six other justices), the Court held that FIFRA expressly preempts the state law …

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More Pesticides Please!

In a cartoon Donald Trump stands over a pile of toxic waste in an extremely polluted and apocalyptic scene holding a shovel and a paper that reads, "TRUMP'S TOXICS FIRST AGENDA".

Trump’s ‘Toxics First’ Agenda continues with a new executive order mandating the production of glyphosate . . . as a matter of national security!

Late last Wednesday, sandwiched between all of the news about the repeal of the endangerment finding and the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Trump tariffs, the White House issued a new Executive Order invoking a Korean War era statute, the Defense Production Act of 1950, to ensure that chemical companies can continue to manufacture a …

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MAHA’s Evidence-Free Health Policy

No matter how good your intentions, ignoring the evidence is a recipe for disaster.

It seems plain that key health agencies are now in the hands of earnest, well-meaning people who, unfortunately, don’t know what they’re talking about.  For example, the CDC’s advisory committee on vaccines is largely composed of anti-vaxxers. When the committee recently decided to eliminate a recommendation for Hepatitis B vaccines, none of the speakers who addressed the committee, and no one on the task force assigned to investigate the question, was an expert on the disease. 

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