Genetically engineered crops could face market delays as the Agriculture Department reviews how their production would affect pesticide use, The New York Times reports.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — More than 1,000 communities that have spent millions of dollars over many years filtering a common agricultural herbicide out of their drinking water are welcoming their shares of a $105 million settlement with the weed-killer's maker.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge in southern Illinois has given preliminary approval to a $105 million settlement between Syngenta and community water systems in six states over the presence of one of the Swiss chemical maker's popular agricultural herbicides in drinking water.
U.S. District Judge J. Phil Gilbert ruled Wednesday the deal in the nearly 8-year-old lawsuit over weed-killing atrazine "appears to be a good compromised result for the parties following years of hard-fought litigation" involving more than 10 million pages of documents shared between both sides.
Swiss chemicals maker Syngenta's agreement to pay $105 million to settle a nearly 8-year-old lawsuit over its popular agricultural herbicides could help reimburse nearly 2,000 community water systems that have had to filter the chemical from its drinking water, one of the plaintiffs' attorneys said Friday.
The proposed deal, announced Friday by Syngenta, must be approved by a federal judge in southern Illinois, where community water systems from at least a half-dozen states have sought to have the company reimburse them for filtering weed-killing atrazine from their supplies.
Some environmental and consumer groups fear a federal decision to approve a genetically altered corn will allow for increased use of Dow Chemical's herbicide, 2,4-D, which could in turn cause cancer, hormone disruption and other health problems, The New York Times reports.
The Environmental Protection Agency rejected an environmental group's effort to ban a widely used weed killer, saying there was not evidence that the product is unsafe, The New York Times reports.
Monsanto announced it has settled a long-running series of class action suits with residents of West Virginia involving chemical pollution from a plant that produced an herbicide used in Agent Orange, Reuters reports.
The planned Cape Wind offshore project in Massachusetts won a $200 million commitment from Denmark's public pension fund, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., pledged to push a vote to complete the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility in Nevada if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., moves to limit filibusters, Roll Call reports.
The Army Corps of Engineers said it would not conduct a cumulative environmental review of three coal export terminals or consider overseas climate change impact in its reviews, E&E reports.
Legal experts say U.S. natural gas companies could file lawsuits against the Energy Department to speed decisions on liquefied natural gas exports, Reuters reports.
House Appropriations Committee Democrats criticized Republicans for cutting Energy Department spending on renewable energy by 50 percent, The Hill reports.
A communique released at the close of the G8 summit expresses leaders' concerns over climate change and pledges support for a new international climate change treaty in 2015, Business Green reports.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advanced a bill to open parts of Alaska's Tongass National Forest to timber development, KTOO reports.
