The Legislative Decree no. 152/2006, also known as ‘Emergency Decree’, dated March 2018, which contains the Italian Environmental rules, has been challenged by a coalition of researchers, experts and NGOs. On 17 April, a call launched by ISDE –...
Agence France-Presse – The Guardian, 11 April 2019 | Source Ruling says chemicals giant knew of weedkiller’s dangers but label lacked warning. A French appeals court has said US chemicals giant Monsanto was guilty of poisoning a farmer who...
RT, On Contact with Chris Hedges, 31 March 2019 | Source This week Monsanto/Bayer AG was ordered by a California federal court to pay $80 million to Edwin Hardeman after a jury found its weed killer, Roundup, caused his...
By Carey Gillam – USRTK, 27 March 2019 | Source How badly did Monsanto want to discredit international cancer scientists who found the company’s glyphosate herbicide to be a probable human carcinogen and promote a counter message of glyphosate...
By Amanda Bronstad – Ther Recorder, 27 March 2019 | Source After one day of deliberations, jurors in San Francisco found that Monsanto, now owned by Bayer AG, was liable for plaintiff Edwin Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The award includes...
Sustainable Pulse, 25 March 2019 | Source Vietnam has announced that it has banned the import of all glyphosate-based herbicides with immediate effect following the latest cancer trial verdict from San Francisco, in a move which has shaken Bayer’s...
U.S. Right to Know, 19 March 2019 | Source A unanimous jury decision on Tuesday handed a first-round victory to plaintiff Edwin Hardeman, as the six jury members found that Hardeman’s exposure to Roundup was a “substantial factor” in...
Rome, 7 mars 2019 – « Les preuves disponibles montrent clairement que la présence des produits chimiques dans notre alimentation, est une question de démocratie. La liberté des citoyens de ne subir aucun préjudice devrait être garantie. C’est pourquoi des...
Overcoming Inequalities in a Fractured World: UNRISD Conference, 7-9 November 2018 Source: UNRISD Published: 14 March 2019 World-renowned eco-feminist and « rock star of the environmental movement », Vandana Shiva, presents her latest book « Oneness vs. The 1% », equal parts a...
The Ramazzini Institute, 11 March 2019 | Source A new study (1) has found that exposure to glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs), including Roundup, caused reproductive and developmental effects in both male and female rats, at a dose level currently considered...