Move to consolidate U.S. paraquat litigation as cases mount against Syngenta

Lawyers suing Swiss chemical company Syngenta are asking a U.S. judicial panel to consolidate more than a dozen similar lawsuits under the oversight of a federal judge in California. The move is a...

April 9, 2021

Paraquat Papers

Multiple lawsuits are pending in the United States alleging the weedkilling chemical paraquat causes Parkinson's disease, and the first case to go to trial over the allegations against Syngenta over...

April 8, 2021

The Monsanto Papers: Roundup (Glyphosate) Cancer Trials Key Documents & Analysis

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March 29, 2021

Monsanto’s Campaign Against U.S. Right To Know: Read the Documents

Update 3.16.21: The Northern California Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists honored U.S. Right to Know with the James Madison Freedom of Information Awards for our work submitting...

March 16, 2021

The next neocolonial gold rush? African food systems are the ‘new oil,’ UN documents say

This blog by Stacy Malkan is updated regularly with news and tips about Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation's agricultural development efforts and political influence over global food systems. Why...

March 9, 2021

The Monsanto Papers – Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice

USRTK Research Director Carey Gillam's new book is out now and garnering glowing reviews. Here is a brief description of the book from publisher Island Press: Lee Johnson was a man with simple...

March 1, 2021

Bill Gates’ plans to remake food systems will harm the climate

By Stacy Malkan In his new book on how to avoid a climate disaster, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates discusses his plans to model African food systems upon India’s “green revolution,”...

February 25, 2021

EPA’s assessments of chemicals draws criticism from its own scientists

Many U.S. scientists working for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) say they don’t trust the agency’s senior leaders to be honest and they fear retaliation if they were to report a...

February 24, 2021

Another Roundup study finds links to potential human health problems

(Updated February 17, adding criticism of study) A new scientific paper examining the potential health impacts of Roundup herbicides found links between exposure to the weed killing chemical...

February 15, 2021

Pesticide-contaminating plant closed; See Nebraska regulatory documents regarding AltEn neonicotinoid problems

UPDATE - In February, roughly  a month after after reporting revealed the dangers of the AltEn plant's practice of using pesticide-treated seeds, Nebraska state regulators ordered the plant...

February 8, 2021