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A new report finds the US could capture enough energy from animal manure, crop residue, and food waste near natural gas pipelines to power roughly 20 million homes each year.
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Not so fast - lawyers for cancer victims see “red flags” in Bayer’s $7.25 billion Roundup settlement deal A group of 14 law firms representing nearly 20,000 plaintiffs is seeking to intervene in Bayer’s proposed class action settlement of Roundup litigation, citing concerns that the settlement deal will n...

Lawyers For Cancer Victims Challenge Bayer’s $7.25B Roundup Settlement

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Health advocates clash with chemical industry as Congress proposes TSCA changes Scientists and health advocates say proposed changes to a key US chemicals safety law would upend protections for children and other vulnerable populations suffering from toxic exposures, while indust...

“Children’s health must come first, yet the chemical industry is now lobbying to weaken the chemical law that protects our families,” the Alliance for Health and Safe Chemicals, a coalition of public health groups, said in a statement.
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Health advocates clash with chemical industry as Congress proposes TSCA changes Scientists and health advocates say proposed changes to a key US chemicals safety law would upend protections for children and other vulnerable populations suffering from toxic exposures, while indust...

“More than 90% of US children two to four years old have multiple neurotoxic chemicals in their bodies,” said @emoryrollins.bsky.social Professor Carmen Marcit.

Scientists say proposed changes to a key US chemical safety law would upend protections for children.
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Industry groups say farmers across the US are leaving potential energy on their fields.

Two new reports argue that turning manure and food waste into natural gas could generate billions in new revenue.

Trump executive order on glyphosate is a “fake news fantasy” Wherever Trump looks, he sees existential threats to America that do not exist. He invents fantasy crises as a pretext to exercise emergency powers, like the emergency tariffs just invalidated by the ...

Opinion: Trump’s executive order on glyphosate is a “fake news fantasy.”

The order misuses wartime authority to protect a pesticide giant, writes David Freese, science director at @cfstruefood.bsky.social.
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Senate Republicans draft bill aimed to speed up new chemical reviews Senate Republicans released a draft discussion bill on Thursday aimed at loosening the nation’s premier chemical safety law with the goal of reducing chemical review delays.

🚨 Senate Republicans released a draft bill on Thursday aimed at loosening the nation’s premier chemical safety law with the goal of reducing chemical review delays.
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Children’s health experts briefed Congress on how phthalates, pesticides, and additives harm kids’ brains.

The briefing comes as Congressional Republicans seek to overhaul the nation’s premier chemical safety law, #TSCA.

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Senate vote sets up a clash over Boundary Waters environmental safeguards The US Senate is poised to vote on a resolution intended to eventually open a long-disputed copper mine close to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast Minnesota, triggering protests f...

A joint effort by Congressional Republicans and President Trump could allow mining near one of the country’s most beloved wilderness areas.

@bwca.bsky.social and other Minnesota groups are fighting back.
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Senate vote sets up a clash over Boundary Waters environmental safeguards The US Senate is poised to vote on a resolution intended to eventually open a long-disputed copper mine close to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast Minnesota, triggering protests f...

225,000 acres of protected forest could soon be opened to mining.

The United States Senate is poised to vote on ending a 20-year mining ban in the Superior National Forest.

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Not so fast - lawyers for cancer victims see “red flags” in Bayer’s Roundup settlement deal A group of 14 law firms representing nearly 20,000 plaintiffs is seeking to intervene in Bayer’s proposed class action settlement of Roundup litigation, citing concerns that the settlement deal will n...

Law firms representing cancer victims say Bayer’s 600-page Roundup settlement was “negotiated behind closed doors” and fails to protect plaintiffs’ interests.
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Conservation groups file appeal challenging Colorado CAFO water permits Colorado officials are failing to require legally mandated water quality monitoring near concentrated animal feeding operations, allowing for widespread water contamination with animal waste, conserva...

In Colorado, the lack of water monitoring at manure lagoons amounts to “an ongoing attack on public health and wildlife,” according to @biologicaldiversity.org attorney Hannah Connor.

The group, alongside @foodandwater.bsky.social, is taking the issue to court. ⤵️
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EPA official touts controversial TSCA reforms A top US regulatory official on Monday championed controversial chemical review reforms that critics say will support industry interests while weakening protections against toxic chemicals for the pub...

#EPA’s new chemical safety chief, a fmr industry lobbyist, just promised the American Chemistry Council he’s "reforming" chemical reviews.

The plan?

Gutting #TSCA safeguards to fast-track new chemicals into the market.

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Bayer's cites Trump support in Supreme Court Roundup battle In an opening salvo aimed at convincing the US Supreme Court to curtail costly Roundup litigation, Bayer is citing support from President Donald Trump and US regulators while renewing a threat to stop...

In its Supreme Court filing, Bayer argued juries are “ill-equipped to understand” the complexities of varying scientific assessments of Roundup.

@cfstruefood.bsky.social and a coalition of groups plan to file a brief opposing Bayer’s position.
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Not so fast - lawyers for cancer victims see “red flags” in Bayer’s Roundup settlement deal A group of 14 law firms representing nearly 20,000 plaintiffs is seeking to intervene in Bayer’s proposed class action settlement of Roundup litigation, citing concerns that the settlement deal will n...

Nearly 20,000 Roundup plaintiffs are challenging Bayer’s proposed settlement, with lawyers calling the deal “unprecedented” and a legal “red flag.”
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Bayer's cites Trump support in Supreme Court Roundup battle In an opening salvo aimed at convincing the US Supreme Court to curtail costly Roundup litigation, Bayer is citing support from President Donald Trump and US regulators while renewing a threat to stop...

“As someone who sat in the courtroom during each of the first three glyphosate cancer trials, this brief reeks of the same misinformation and manufactured doubt that Monsanto/Bayer has perpetrated for decades,” said Kelly Ryerson, a leader in the MAHA movement.
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Bayer's cites Trump support in Supreme Court Roundup battle In an opening salvo aimed at convincing the US Supreme Court to curtail costly Roundup litigation, Bayer is citing support from President Donald Trump and US regulators while renewing a threat to stop...

In an opening salvo to the US Supreme Court, Bayer urged the justices to rein in costly Roundup litigation, citing support from President Trump.

The company is also renewing its threat to pull glyphosate from the US market if it does not prevail.
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It’s been a busy week.

First, chemical giant Bayer announced a proposed $7.25 billion class-action settlement over Roundup.

Then, President Trump issued an executive order granting “immunity” to Roundup and other glyphosate-based pesticides.

“The only thing that makes digesters economically viable is government support,” said Aaron Smith, a researcher and professor at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social.
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EPA official touts controversial TSCA reforms A top US regulatory official on Monday championed controversial chemical review reforms that critics say will support industry interests while weakening protections against toxic chemicals for the pub...

A top official at the EPA is defending proposed reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act, saying they will boost innovation.

Health researchers disagree. Last month, Tracey Woodruff of @ucsfhealth.bsky.social called the proposed changes an industry wishlist.
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EPA official touts controversial TSCA reforms A top US regulatory official on Monday championed controversial chemical review reforms that critics say will support industry interests while weakening protections against toxic chemicals for the pub...

A top US regulatory official on Monday championed controversial chemical review reforms that critics say will support industry interests while weakening protections against toxic chemicals for the public.
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“The public money going to these digesters is just giveaways to an industry that is very good at capturing public subsidies,” said Andrew deCoriolis, the executive director of @farmforward.bsky.social.
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A newly filed court document reveals how much Bayer is proposing to pay Roundup users who developed cancer.

Here’s what the payouts could look like 👇

USDA has "sufficient opportunities" to respond to PFAS crisis on farmland, report finds Federal regulators have a range of solutions available to tackle the widespread contamination of farmland with toxic chemicals, according to a new report by US academics.

A new report finds the @usdagov.bsky.social has “sufficient opportunities” to respond to the #PFAS crisis on farmland.

The report follows a bipartisan group of lawmakers who reintroduced the Relief for Farmers Hit with PFAS Act.
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