Three significant glyphosate decisions have been handed down in the last week, two by the U.S. Supreme Court and one by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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We are stepping on Jerri-Lynn’s toes a bit, since she has been following Monsanto litigation closely. Today we are providing an update on a effort to settle a large group of pending and potential cases. The short version is that this effort, like an earlier attempt, was rejected by Federal judge in the Northern District of California. We’ve embedded his order at the end of this post.
To catch you up on this sorry story, Bayer bought Monsanto, despite its known glysophate litigation risks, as a poison pill, to make Bayer too big, and by loading up the company with a lot of debt to finance an “all cash” offer to avoid shareholder approval, too leveraged to be an attractive target to even larger companies on the prowl.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 23May 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Covid totals continue to fall, both in the US and worldwide. New US cases during the week ending May 22nd were down 22.0% from those testing positive during the week ending May 15th, and down 64.2% from our mid-April surge high; this week s new cases were also the lowest for a 7 day period since that ending June 19th of last year. US deaths attributed to Covid this week were down 7.1% from the prior week, and less than a sixth of the death rate during the peak weeks of January. US Covid deaths were also the lowest since t