On July 17, 2025, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced legislation that would establish a private right of action for injuries caused by pesticides (S.2324). The introduction of S.2324, the ...

Public attention surrounding hantavirus outbreaks often focuses, understandably, on the immediate health risks associated with rodent exposure.

The Department of Justice sides with Monsanto on whether federal law preempts state-law duty-to-warn suits against pesticide manufacturers, setting up an important test of the Court's view of federal ...

Bayer is hailing a decision by the 11 th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider the court’s judgment in a case involving the question of whether federal pesticide law trumps state failure-to-warn ...

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The case thrusts the court into a battle involving over 100,000 lawsuits, “billions and billions” of dollars, the international scientific community, federal and state policymakers, and, if you ask ...

On Jan. 16, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Monsanto Company v. Durnell to decide if the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act pre-empts state-level “failure-to-warn” claims ...

Companies that make biologically derived products designed to enhance soil and plant nutrition are backing a bill that would establish a definition and a regulatory pathway for those products. The ...