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U.S. refiner group sues Trump EPA over E15 gasoline

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 10, 2019

Reuters — The main U.S. refining industry association said on Monday it sued to block the Trump administration’s effort to expand sales of higher ethanol blends of gasoline, arguing the move exceeded the administration’s authority. The legal challenge from the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) association escalated a battle between the oil and corn

Bayer CEO Werner Baumann speaks during the company’s annual general shareholders’ meeting in Bonn, Germany on April 26, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay)

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Bayer shareholders vent ire over Monsanto-linked stock rout

By GFM Network News, Ludwig Burger April 26, 2019

Bonn | Reuters — Bayer shareholders vented their anger over its stock price slump on Friday as litigation risks mount from the German drugmaker’s US$63 billion takeover of seed and chemical firm Monsanto. Several large investors said they will not support aspirin invesotr Bayer’s management in a key vote scheduled for the end of its

Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

R-CALF suit alleges U.S. packers conspired to suppress fed cattle prices

By GFM Network News, Jonathan Stempel April 23, 2019

Reuters — Four of the largest U.S. beef-packing companies were accused in a lawsuit on Tuesday of violating federal antitrust law by conspiring to drive down prices they paid ranchers for cattle, even as retail beef prices hovered near record levels. Tyson Foods, Cargill, the JBS USA unit of Brazil’s JBS and National Beef Packing

Edwin Hardeman, at right with his attorneys Jennifer Moore (left) and Aimee Wagstaff, speaks to the media, after Bayer was found liable for Hardeman’s non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma arising from his use of Roundup herbicide, at a federal courthouse in San Francisco on March 27, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Alexandria Sage)

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U.S. jury says Bayer must pay $80 million to man in Roundup cancer trial

By Alexandria Sage, GFM Network News March 28, 2019

San Francisco/New York | Reuters –– A U.S. jury on Wednesday awarded US$80 million to a man who claimed his use of Bayer’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup caused his cancer, in the latest legal setback for the company facing thousands of similar lawsuits. The jury in San Francisco federal court said the company was liable for

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U.S. judge to allow controversial evidence in Roundup cancer trials

By GFM Network News January 29, 2019

Reuters — A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging Bayer’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide causes cancer on Monday tentatively allowed pieces of controversial evidence that the company had hoped to exclude from upcoming trials. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria during a hearing in San Francisco federal court called his decision “probably most disappointing for Monsanto,” the Bayer

Bayer CEO Werner Baumann, shown here May 25 at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Bonn, is reportedly under pressure to boost the company’s share price. (File photo: Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay)

Livestock

Bayer to shed animal health division, others after Monsanto deal

By GFM Network News, Ludwig Burger November 29, 2018

Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer, the German drugmaker that bought U.S. seed company Monsanto, announced on Thursday the sale of its animal health business and a number of others, around 12,000 job cuts and 3.3 billion euros (C$4.98 billion) in impairments. CEO Werner Baumann is under pressure to boost Bayer’s share price after a drop

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U.S. judge selects first case in federal glyphosate litigation

By GFM Network News November 20, 2018

Reuters — A U.S. judge overseeing the federal litigation against Bayer’s Monsanto unit over glyphosate-based herbicides allegedly causing cancer on Tuesday selected the first case to be tried in federal court in February 2019. U.S. District Judge Vince Chaabria in San Francisco in an order said the case of California resident Edwin Hardeman will be

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U.S. judge orders next glyphosate cancer trial for March

By GFM Network News November 16, 2018

Reuters — A California judge on Thursday granted an expedited trial for March in the case of a couple suffering from cancer who sued Bayer’s Monsanto unit, alleging the company’s glyphosate-containing herbicide Roundup caused their disease. The order by Superior Court Judge Ioana Petrou in Oakland, Calif. comes on the heels of a $289 million

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Roundup cancer verdict sends Bayer shares sliding

By GFM Network News, Ludwig Burger August 13, 2018

Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer shares plunged as much as 14 per cent on Monday, losing about US$14 billion in value, after newly acquired Monsanto was ordered to pay US$289 million in damages in the first of possibly thousands of U.S. lawsuits over alleged links between a weedkiller and cancer. After the verdict

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U.S. judge allows Roundup-related suits to go to trial

By GFM Network News July 10, 2018

Reuters — Hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto Co. by cancer survivors or families of those who died can proceed to trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, finding there was sufficient evidence for a jury to hear the cases that blame the company’s glyphosate herbicide for the disease. The decision by U.S. District Judge Vince

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U.S. refiner group sues Trump EPA over E15 gasoline

Bayer shareholders vent ire over Monsanto-linked stock rout

R-CALF suit alleges U.S. packers conspired to suppress fed cattle prices

U.S. jury says Bayer must pay $80 million to man in Roundup cancer trial

U.S. judge to allow controversial evidence in Roundup cancer trials

Bayer to shed animal health division, others after Monsanto deal

U.S. judge selects first case in federal glyphosate litigation

U.S. judge orders next glyphosate cancer trial for March

Roundup cancer verdict sends Bayer shares sliding

U.S. judge allows Roundup-related suits to go to trial

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