Bayer’s Shady PR Firms: FleishmanHillard, Ketchum, FTI Consulting
In the latest PR scandal to engulf Bayer, journalists at Le Monde reported May 9 that they obtained a "Monsanto File" created by the public relations firm FleishmanHillard listing a "multitude of...
May 21, 2019
Don’t weaken the California Public Records Act
Update: On May 2nd, Assemblymember Laura Friedman announced that she will not advance the legislation to the Assembly floor in 2019. U.S. Right to Know opposes AB 700, legislation to weaken the...
May 7, 2019
Tracking the Agrichemical Industry Propaganda Network
Propaganda: information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view Just four corporations now control more...
April 26, 2019
State public records laws help uncover wrongdoing at public universities
See our post about why journalism and public interest groups are opposing AB700. Legislation is pending in the California Assembly (AB700) to weaken the California Public Records Act by...
April 19, 2019
Monsanto Relied on These “Partners” to Attack Top Cancer Scientists
Related: Secret Documents Expose Monsanto's War on Cancer Scientists, by Stacy Malkan This fact sheet describes the contents of Monsanto’s confidential public relations plan to discredit the...
March 31, 2019
Geoffrey Kabat’s Ties to Tobacco and Chemical Industry Groups
Geoffrey Kabat, PhD, is a cancer epidemiologist and author of two books arguing that that health hazards of pesticides, electromagnetic fields, secondhand tobacco smoke and other environmental...
March 7, 2019
Glyphosate Fact Sheet: Cancer and Other Health Concerns
Glyphosate, a synthetic herbicide patented in 1974 by the Monsanto Company and now manufactured and sold by many companies in hundreds of products, has been associated with cancer and other health...
January 15, 2019
Pamela Ronald’s Ties to Chemical Industry Front Groups
Pamela Ronald, PhD, a professor of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis and author of the 2008 book "Tomorrow's Table," is a well-known advocate for genetically engineered foods....
December 27, 2018
Keith Kloor: The Agrichemical Industry’s Favorite Writer
Keith Kloor is a freelance journalist and an adjunct journalism faculty member at New York University who has written for Nature, Science Insider, Slate and dozens of articles for Discover...
November 1, 2018
Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Winner: Whitewash by Carey Gillam
Carey Gillam's "Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science (Island Press) has received rave reviews since its release last fall and has received several awards for...
October 8, 2018