Just Label It News Roundup 11-9

A report released this week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative reveals that the removal of climate change information from the EPA website is set to be a long-term policy of the Trump administration. The state agriculture department in Punjab, India recently passed an order that would ban manufacturers, marketers and dealers from selling the toxic weed killer glyphosate. In other news, Dr. Ruth Etzel, a sidelined children’s health official says EPA inaction means “kids are disposable.” Making sure children are protected from environmental toxins has been Etzel’s job at the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency has done little to make children a priority. A recent study has linked DDT to an increase in autism risk. Columbia University Medical Center researchers found that mothers with higher exposure to the banned pesticide had an increased risk of a child developing autism. Also in the news, robotic bees could pollinate plants in case of mass insect die-off. Intensive modern farming methods and the unraveling consequences of global climate change are said to have put the future of the common bee under threat like never before. Earlier this month the world’s leading climate scientists released the most urgent warning on climate change to date. The warning described the implications of our current warming trajectory, including dire food shortages, large-scale human migration and crises ranging from a mass die-off of coral reefs to increasingly extreme weather events. To reverse course, the report calls for a global transformation of historically unprecedented speed and scale. As one of the climate change study’s co-chairs emphasized, “The next few years are probably the most important in our history.” Finally, Bayer AG’s chief executive said the company might consider settling lawsuits over Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weed killers depending on how high court costs rise – yet, stressed it remained focused on defending the combined company against claims they cause cancer. Bayer AG shares slumped after the German conglomerate failed to persuade a California state judge to set aside a jury’s verdict in the first trial over allegations that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer.

The EPA’s Climate Change Page Is Just Gone Now

A report released this week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative reveals that the removal of climate change information from the EPA website is set to be a long-term policy of the Trump administration.

Glyphosate herbicide sales banned in Punjab

After the state agriculture department recently passed an order, manufacturers, marketers, and dealers in Punjab will not be allowed to sell the toxic chemical or its formulations.

Sidelined children’s health official says EPA inaction means “kids are disposable”

Making sure children are protected from environmental toxins has been Dr. Ruth Etzel’s job at the Environmental Protection Agency. She’s the agency’s top pediatric expert – the author of textbooks and policy handbooks on children’s environmental health. As director of the Office of Children’s Health Protection (OCHP), it was her job to determine the impacts of regulations on children.

DDT linked to an increase in autism risk in new study

Columbia University Medical Center researchers found that mothers with higher exposure to the banned pesticide had an increased risk of a child developing autism.

Robotic bees could pollinate plants in case of insect apocalypse

Intensive modern farming methods and the unraveling consequences of global climate change are said to have put the future of the common bee under threat like never before.

How A Regenerative Revolution Could Reverse Climate Change

Earlier this month the world’s leading climate scientists released the most urgent warning on climate change to date. It describes the implications of our current warming trajectory, including dire food shortages, large-scale human migration and crises ranging from a mass die-off of coral reefs to increasingly extreme weather events. To reverse course, the report calls for a global transformation of historically unprecedented speed and scale. As one of the IPCC study’s co-chairs emphasized, “The next few years are probably the most important in our history.”

Bayer CEO says would consider glyphosate settlement depending on costs

Bayer AG’s chief executive said this week the company might consider settling lawsuits over Monsanto’s glyphosate-containing weed-killers depending on how high court costs rise but stressed it remained focused on defending the combined company against claims they cause cancer.

Bayer Sags as Judge Finds Roundup Weed Killer Caused Cancer

Bayer AG shares slumped after the German conglomerate failed to persuade a California state judge to set aside a jury’s verdict in the first trial over allegations that its Roundup weed killer causes cancer.