All posts tagged "Monsanto"

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  Puerto Rico senator insists on voting to ban glyphosate

  Dalmau introduced a bill to eliminate use of the synthetic compound in January last year

  • Posted August 14, 2018
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  Bayer to win EU approval for $62.5 billion Monsanto deal

  Takeover would represent more than a quarter of world’s seed, pesticides market

  • Posted February 28, 2018
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  Monsanto offers cash to U.S. farmers who use controversial chemical

  Even as regulators in several states weigh restrictions on its use

  • Posted December 11, 2017
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  Bayer sells units to be able to complete Monsanto takeover

  Will most field crop seeds businesses to BASF

  • Posted October 13, 2017
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  Ingredient in popular weed killer going on list as cancerous

  Monsanto tried to block label

  • Posted June 27, 2017
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  California Fights Monsanto on Labels for Popular Weed Killer

  It's sold in more than 160 countries, and farmers in California use it on 250 types of crops

  • Posted January 27, 2017
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  Monsanto Shareholders Approve Bayer’s $57 Billion Takeover

  ST. LOUIS – Monsanto Co. shareholders on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a $57 billion merger with Bayer AG, a deal that would combine two of the world’s biggest agricultural companies. Preliminary results showed that 99 percent of all...

  • Posted December 13, 2016
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  Washington State Suing Agrochemical Giant over PCB Pollution

  SEATTLE – Washington has become the first U.S. state to sue the agrochemical giant Monsanto over pervasive pollution from PCBs, the toxic industrial chemicals that have accumulated in plants, fish and people around the globe for decades....

  • Posted December 9, 2016
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  Bayer Opens New Bio-Agriculture Facilities in Puerto Rico

  SAN JUAN — Bayer CropScience, a division of German pharmaceutical and chemical conglomerate Bayer AG, announced the opening of two agricultural biotechnology facilities in Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Through a combined investment of $17 million, the multi-national company...

  • Posted September 20, 2016
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  Monsanto, Bayer Officials Defend Proposed $66 Billion Merger

  WASHINGTON – Top officials for Monsanto and Bayer defended their proposed $66 billion merger before skeptical senators on Tuesday, insisting that the deal would lead to greater investments in technology that could help American farmers. Monsanto, the American...

  • Posted September 20, 2016