Commercial fishermen and environmental groups could file lawsuits against EPA to protect salmon from pesticides. January 22, 2018 Following the publication of a recent National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) biological opinion that organophosphate pesticides chlorpyrifos, malathion, and diazinon harm salmon and their habitat to the point that their survival and recovery are at risk, commercial fishermen and environmental groups could file lawsuits against the EPA if it fails to follow the recommendations to… Read More
Tribute to Shiv Chopra, brave whistleblower January 11, 2018 January 11, 2017 : Justice Pesticides pays tribute to Shiv Chopra, who died on 7 January 2018. Shiv Chopra is a whistle blower, who was fired from Health Canada for refusing to comply with farm input manufacturers and declaring their products safe. He was a tireless advocate of food safety. He came to testify in… Read More
Commission rejects demands of #StopGlyphosate citizens’ initiative December 12, 2017 From the Press release of the #StopGlyphosate citizens’ initiative posted on Greenpeace EU website. Dec. 12, 2017 : Today is a sad day for democracy in Europe, as PAN Europe noted. On the same day, the European Commission renewed the license of health-harming glyphosate and officially recognised the submission of more than one million signatures… Read More
The Commission’s renewal of the authorization of glyphosate would be illegal December 8, 2017 December 7, 2017 : At a press conference organized in Brussels by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, UCL (Université Catholique de Louvain ) Law professor Olivier de Schutter (ex rapporteur of the United Nations on the right to food from 2008 to 2014) explained that the coming decision (Dec. 12) from the EU… Read More
France: Suspension of 2 Sulfoxaflor Insecticides November 24, 2017 Press release from Générations Futures, the organization that brought a legal action against the authorization of two sulfoxaflor insecticides. Sulfoxaflor: Marketing authorizations for Closer and Transform insecticides are suspended! Our lawyer Maître Lafforgue represented us yesterday, November 23, in the hearing before the administrative court of Nice following our application for emergency suspension of the… Read More
Dicamba Attorneys File Motion to Consolidate Cases November 22, 2017 On November 22, attorney Rene Rocha filed a motion to consolidate nine dicamba lawsuits into a multidistrict litigation (MDL) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. The motion argues that consolidating the cases would prevent duplicate discovery and ensure a swifter, more efficient resolution. Indeed, the cases in question are filed… Read More