cancer Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:48:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Bayer to Pay $1.45Bn In Glyphosate Damages https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bayer-glyphosate-damages-20180821/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bayer-glyphosate-damages-20180821/#respond Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:48:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=66897 According to a German environment ministry’s spokesman, by the end of the current legislative period, which ends in 3 years,  use of glyphosate based weedkillers should be halted. Additionally, after a California jury ordered Germany’s Bayer’s (BAYGn.DE) unit, Monsanto, to pay $289 million for not warning of cancer risk posed by its most popular weed […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/bayer-glyphosate-damages-20180821/feed/ 0 66897 Monsanto Begs to Keep “Cancer-causing” Glyphosate on Market https://www.greenoptimistic.com/monsanto-glyphosate-market-20160608/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/monsanto-glyphosate-market-20160608/#respond Thu, 09 Jun 2016 07:54:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60060 Monsanto seeks to renew its glyphosate license for another 15 years despite an International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) 2015 study that predicted the chemical could cause cancer. In the United States and Brazil, Monsanto sells genetically modified glyphosate-resistant corn and soybean seeds. Unfortunately the herbicide glyphosate may present health problems. The majority of […]

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