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On April 25, 2019, the California Assembly unanimously passed AB-619, a bill that would put a temporary moratorium on the use of glyphosate, preventing localities from using any pesticide that contains the active ingredient glyphosate until January 1, 2025.
This important bill could become law if it passes the California Senate in 2020.
Another bill, AB-468, introduced in 2019, would ban the use of Roundup at schools.
In 2019, two bills on glyphosate were introduced in the Hawaii state legislature.
One was killed: HR109 would have required the Department of Education to report its use of glyphosate on schools and playgrounds.
The other survived and has been carried over to 2020: HB872 would prohibit the use of glyphosate herbicides on or within 100 feet of a school.
Four bills to ban or restrict the use of glyphosate (the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller) were introduced in 2019 in the New York state legislature.
The bills will be carried over to the 2020 legislative session. But will they pass?
A bill to ban glyphosate (the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller) was introduced in the Vermont legislature in 2019, and will be carried over to the 2020 legislative session:
House Bill H.301 would ban the sale, use, and application of glyphosate.
TAKE ACTION: Tell your state representatives to support this bill to ban glyphosate!
Our Millions Against Monsanto campaign to ban glyphosate is gaining steam in statehouses across the country.
Which U.S. state will be the first to ban glyphosate-based weedkillers like Roundup, the flagship pesticide manufactured by Monsanto (now owned by Bayer)?
Will it be yours?
Take Action: Make your state the first to ban Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller!
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has stood firm against industry pressure and confirmed that it is giving the 2019 Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility to two Sri Lankan scientists, Sarath Gunatilake and Channa Jayasumana, who hypothesized a connection between glyphosate herbicide exposure and chronic kidney disease.
It seems like you can’t go to a restaurant nowadays without seeing an Impossible Burger, Beyond Meat burger, or other meat-substitute burgers on the menu. But what’s the deal with these burgers?
Agrochemical giant Monsanto has pleaded guilty to spraying banned pesticides on research crops on the Hawaiian island of Maui in 2014, and will have to pay $10.2 million in criminal fines for spraying and illegally storing the pesticide which has been classified as an “acute hazardous waste.”
After several months out of the headlines, lawyers for both sides of the nationwide Roundup cancer litigation are gearing up for overlapping trials in the new year as several more cancer patients seek to blame Monsanto for their diseases.
Six trials are currently set to take place starting in January, with one in February, two in March and additional trials scheduled almost every month from April through October 2021. Thousands of additional plaintiffs still are working to get trial dates set for their claims.
Monsanto Co. will plead guilty to illegally storing and using a banned pesticide in Maui County and must pay $10 million as part of a plea agreement filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Hawaii. The recent development caps one part of a multi-faceted inquiry launched by the Environmental Protection Agency for alleged pesticide misuse by several companies, including Monsanto.
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