Emily Ashcraft

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Petitioners Claim BASF and DuPont Should Have Limits in...

Petitioners in the Ninth Circuit case addressing the canceled registration of three dicamba products argue that two recent intervenors in the case, BASF and E.I. du Pont de Nemours...

Sens. Raise Concern About Meat Shipped to China During...

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) wrote a letter on Tuesday to four major meatpacking companies expressing concern with the amount of meat being sent abroad to China during...

Bayer Agrees to Pay Over $10b to Settle Roundup...

Bayer has agreed to pay over $10 billion in a settlement which covers about 75 percent of the many cases alleging the herbicide Roundup caused cancer and other health...

Senators Introduce Bill to Protect Agriculture Workers During COVID-19...

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced a bill called the FARM (Frontline At-Risk Manual) Laborers Protection Act, which would establish hazard pay and 10 days of paid leave to agricultural workers. In a press...

Texas Residents Allege Drinking Water Contaminated with Drilling Fluid

Four Texas residents and the Trinity Edwards Springs Protection Association claim companies who pumped 36,000 gallons of drilling fluid, allegedly containing seven probable human carcinogens, into a Texas aquifer...

Judge Rules Cancer Warning Not Necessary for Roundup in...

A California court ruled in favor of Monsanto Company and multiple agriculture organizations, finding that glyphosate, an ingredient in Roundup weed killer, should not be on the list of...