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"In the 1990s, even as they denied the reality of climate change, oil company executives were quietly funding research that favored climate fixes that would protect their businesses."

"A newly revealed government memo identifies yet another compromised paper used to justify Roundup’s safety."

"The US Environmental Protection Agency has known for nearly a decade that an influential 2013 scientific paper that concluded glyphosate is safe was actually ghostwritten by developer Monsanto. But the agency never informed the public and continued to rely on it, according to an EPA memo obtained by Mother Jones and revealed here for the first time.

"The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is violating the law by failing to turn over records related to an executive order issued by President Donald Trump protecting production of the controversial pesticide glyphosate, according to a lawsuit filed Monday."

"The Supreme Court has dealt a devastating blow to the Make America Healthy Again Movement by blocking a path for users of the popular Roundup weedkiller to secure payouts from Monsanto for failing to disclose the product’s cancer risk."

"Since April, an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ballooned to 1,114 confirmed cases and 279 deaths, already the third-largest such epidemic since the disease was identified 50 years ago. Despite its worrying size, this outbreak is threaded with mystery — particularly regarding its origins."

"Many philanthropists are backing away from climate giving. But one is writing very big checks." Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and founder of Bloomberg L.P., has announced $590 million in new environmental commitments in recent days."

"Abelardo de la Espriella, the apparent winner of the presidential election, has vowed to expand oil, gas and mining production, alarming activists in the world’s deadliest country for environmental defenders."

"Lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill to federally ban the use of paraquat, an herbicide widely used in U.S. agriculture despite its potential health impacts."

"A business controlled by the American billionaire Ira Rennert reached a $150 million settlement in the United States with 1,373 Peruvians who claimed ​they were poisoned by lead and other toxic substances while growing ‌up near a Peruvian smelter, lawyers for the plaintiffs said on Wednesday."

"The makers of popular cookware brands All-Clad and Farberware have launched an unusual legal fight against a rival whose products don’t contain “forever chemicals,” alleging the company’s ads falsely paint the presence of PFAS in its competitors’ products as toxic."