‘The world is against them’: new era of cancer lawsuits threaten Monsanto (& other glyphosate manufacturers) According to the Guardian: “In an historic verdict in August, a jury ruled that Monsanto had caused a man’s terminal cancer and ordered the agrochemical corporation to pay $289m in damages. The extraordinary decision, exposing the potential hazards of […]
The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has 60 days, from August 9th, to finalize a ban of the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos. The court’s decision overturned what was one of the first formal actions of the controversial former head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt, who chose to […]
The Bhopal Medical Appeal has joined the signatories of a letter to the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, urging the EU to revise its own Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). The letter calls on the EU to include compulsory environmental standards in factory inspections which would oblige pharmaceutical companies to tackle an environmental crisis […]
In the June 2018 issue of the Safety Institute of Australia’s publication ‘OHS Professional’ BMA’s Tim Edwards and Colin Toogood describe a litany of occupational health and safety transgressions from the earliest days of the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal; and how a complex series of interacting events including design defects, repeated failures, reduced staff […]
Donald Trump has nominated a Dow Chemical corporate lawyer to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office responsible for emergency response to hazardous spills and the clean-up of the most contaminated sites in the US. If the Senate confirms his appointment, Peter C. Wright, who has worked as a corporate lawyer at Dow Chemical Co. […]
