Gates Foundation’s ‘Failing’ Green Revolution in Africa: New Report
New research from the Tufts Global Development and Environment Institute finds the billion-dollar Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa is not living up to its promises By Stacy...
July 29, 2020
Junk Food Makers Target Blacks, Latinos and Communities of Color, Increasing Risks From COVID
In the United States, the novel coronavirus appears to be infecting, hospitalizing and killing black people and Latinos at alarmingly high rates, with data from several states illustrating this...
July 19, 2020
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...
July 14, 2020
The Dicamba Papers: Key Documents and Analysis
Dozens of farmers around the United States are suing the former Monsanto Co., purchased in 2018 by Bayer AG, and conglomerate BASF in an effort to hold the companies accountable for millions of acres...
June 20, 2020
Dicamba (3,6-dichloro-2-methoxybenzoic acid) is a broad-spectrum herbicide first registered in 1967. The herbicide is used on agricultural crops, fallow land, pastures, turfgrass and rangeland....
June 12, 2020
Tens of thousands of pages of internal documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know via public records requests reveal the close – and often secret – ties between Monsanto, its PR groups, and a group...
June 11, 2020
EPA thumbs nose at court order, says farmers can still use illegal dicamba herbicides
(UPDATES with comment from BASF) The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday declared it would not immediately honor a court ruling handed down last week that banned certain herbicides made by...
June 9, 2020
(UPDATES with statement from BASF) In a stunning rebuke of the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal court on Wednesday overturned the agency’s approval of popular dicamba-based herbicides...
June 3, 2020
Dicamba: Farmers fear another season of crop damage; court ruling awaited
With the turn of the calendar to June, farmers in the U.S. Midwest are wrapping up the planting of new soybean crops and tending to growing fields of young corn plants and vegetable plots. But many...
June 2, 2020