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03/16/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Court upholds Arkansas decision to ban dicamba herbicide

It’s back to the drawing board for Monsanto, after an Arkansas state judge refused to overturn a ban on the use of the company’s dicamba herbicide between April 16 and October 31. According to the Associated Press, Judge Chris Piazza of the Pulaski County Circuit Court dismissed a lawsuit by Monsanto which sought to overturn […]

03/14/2018 / By JD Heyes

Schwarzenegger vows to “terminate” oil companies with lawsuits after accusing them of “first-degree murder” for causing climate change

Hollywood mega-star and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger used to drive a gas-guzzling Hummer and was criticized in 2008 for using a private jet almost daily to commute from his Brentwood home to his office in Sacramento. But that was then. Today, the former professional bodybuilding champion is a champion of global warming and […]

03/02/2018 / By Tracey Watson

The city of Paris is considering SUING the fossil fuel industry to recoup expenses for recent “climate damage”

It is human nature to always blame someone or something when disaster strikes. We instinctively search for a cause, a scapegoat for why things went wrong, so that we can feel there is a reason for everything, maintain our feeling of being in control, and attempt to prevent the same thing from happening in the […]

02/07/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Incriminating documents reveal Monsanto knew they were poisoning the environment with their PCBs

Documents that have come to light recently show that Monsanto continued to make and sell polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for eight years after they knew that they were hazardous to the environment and human health. The firm was already exposed for this practice when internal documents were digitized and posted as part of the Poison Papers […]

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