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There are now nearly 1,000 plaintiffs in lawsuits against Monsanto filed by people, or the families of people, who were diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after being exposed to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide.
Court documents for this case may be the best way ever to find out what Monsanto has hidden in its filing cabinets about the health risks of Roundup. But the judge isn't likely to make all of the documents public.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — A food sovereignty law in Maine moved one step closer to reality after the state House and Senate approved a bill giving towns and communities the authority to enact ordinances regulating local food and water distribution free from state control.
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With little fanfare, the Maine Board of Pesticides Control unanimously approved on Friday morning the registration of three new types of genetically engineered potatoes that have been developed by a major Idaho agribusiness company.
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You've probably heard of plastic bag ban bans, but now state lawmakers want to legislate pesticide bans.
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A new joint Thai / U.S. peer-reviewed study has discovered high levels of the pesticides glyphosate and paraquat in pregnant women’s blood serum at childbirth and in umbilical cord blood serum.
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The results offer 'a strong message to all of Washington: If you're not working to create a fair economy, we'll do it ourselves'
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New England has become the first region of the country outside the West to embrace marijuana legalization, with voters in Massachusetts approving an initiative Tuesday, while as of early Friday morning, a similar measure in Maine was still too close to call.
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For all their posturing, for all their proclamations that Vermont’s law must be preempted or “chaos will ensue,” key Senate proponents of a federal bill to preempt Vermont’s mandatory GMO labeling bill have yet to produce a viable version of the bill, much less pass such a bill.
Now, they’re down to five days. The anti-labeling brigade has just five working days (including today, June 16, 2016) to preempt Vermont’s law before it takes effect July 1.
Five working days, before the House adjourns for the July 4 holiday recess on June 24. And because any bill passed by the Senate
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I have a confession.
Until I watched actress Kaiulani Lee kick off the Beyond Pesticides 34th National Pesticide Forum this weekend in Portland, Maine, I had only vaguely heard of Rachel Carson, marine biologist, environmental activist and author of “The Silent Spring.”
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Beyond Pesticides will hold its 34th Annual National Pesticide Conference on April 15-16 at the University of Southern Maine Abromson Center, 88 Bedford St. Portland.
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