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On November 19, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced California was placing a moratorium on new permits for oil drilling activities that involved steam injection and fracking. The announcement came just a few months after news broke that not only did California’s top oil regulators have a vested interest in major oil companies, but since Newsom became governor, the number of oil permits had doubled.
Genetically engineered (GE) versions of stevia have received the green light for widespread and unregulated use in food, including Cargill’s “nonartificial stevia,” a GE-derived synthetic biology product designed to mimic components of the real thing. Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has labeled stevia leaf and crude stevia extracts “unsafe food additives."
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!
As reported in a November 12, 2019, Financial Times article, dozens of popular health websites are tracking, storing and sharing your personal data, including WebMD and Healthline. These two websites also, as of this year, dominate Google health searches, which virtually guarantees their continued growth and influence.
Google poses a unique threat to anyone concerned about health, supplements, food and your ability to obtain truthful information about these and other issues. This year, we’ve seen an unprecedented push to implement censorship across all online platforms, making obtaining and sharing crucial information about holistic health increasingly difficult.
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.
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