Pollution
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The National Black Farmers Association hit Monsanto with a lawsuit Wednesday in Missouri federal court, seeking to get the Bayer AG unit to stop selling its Roundup brand products, which the group says have been linked to cancer and other ailments… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A New York state appeals court on Thursday stripped away the law license of attorney Steven Donziger, who has been tied up in a sprawling, yearslong legal saga stemming from Chevron’s alleged pollution in Ecuador… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The internal watchdog arm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching a probe into the Trump administration’s rollback of Obama-era greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for vehicles made from 2021 to 2026, the unit announced Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A split Sixth Circuit panel ruled on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Transportation properly approved Enbridge Energy’s oil spill response plans for a Wisconsin-to-Ontario pipeline, while the dissenting judge said a lower court had been right to disagree… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday vacated a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency decision allowing the herbicide dicamba to be used on cotton and soybean crops, saying the regulator “substantially understated” the risks associated with the weedkiller produced by several major agrochemical companies… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 