US Supreme Court

KLAR: MAHA Scores Major Congressional ‘Win’ Against Big Chem.

But Will SCOTUS Intervene on Behalf of Pesticide Manufacturers? On Monday, a massive backlash by MAHA groups scuttled an effort to incorporate an amendment into a congressional spending bill that would have provided legal immunity to chemical manufacturers. This is a big ‘win’ for MAHA – a moment to celebrate months of petitioning Congress to remove Section … Read more

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Klar: Are Courts Doing Enough To Protect Public Health?

A lawsuit in late March that awarded Georgia man John Barnes $2.1 billion in damages looked like another piece of good news for one of the tens of thousands of litigants against Bayer, the agrochemical giant that since 2018 has owned Monsanto, maker of the popular weedkiller, Roundup. Glyphosate is used widely as an integral … Read more

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