• Health

Roundup Plaintiffs Negotiate Record Settlement of Thousands of Claims

• Bayer
• carcinogen
• litigation
• lymphoma
• Monsanto
• pesticide
• Roundup
• science
• settlement
• toxic
• weedkiller

In a massive and highly complex legal settlement covering the majority of the claims against Monsanto, a U.S. company that makes the weedkiller Roundup, its parent, Bayer Corporation, will pay nearly $11B to settle approximately 95,000 claims and set aside $1.25 billion for potential claims from Roundup customers who may develop cancer in the future. 

Why This Matters: This must end the debate about whether Roundup can still be sold to consumers.

• Health
• People

States Demand EPA Track Asbestos Use

• asbestos
• carcinogen
• Chemicals
• EPA. Attorneys General
• toxic

Sixteen State Attorneys General have formed a coalition and petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to issue new rules that would require the reporting of asbestos uses, The Hill reported.  The coalition, led by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, believes that inadequate reporting and tracking systems on imported and domestic asbestos make it impossible for EPA to comply with its mandate to prevent risks to the health and environment posed by the widespread use of asbestos.