Supreme Court agrees to hear longstanding fight over Roundup cancer claims
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Key Points:
- The Supreme Court will decide whether thousands of cancer-related lawsuits against Monsanto over the pesticide Roundup can proceed, or if a federal law regulating pesticide labeling preempts these cases.
- Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, argues that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) blocks state law claims, which if upheld could dismiss many pending lawsuits.
- The EPA has consistently found glyphosate, Roundup’s active ingredient, does not cause cancer, while some juries and the International Agency for Research on Cancer have classified it as probably carcinogenic.
- The Trump administration supports Monsanto’s position, despite Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s prior criticism and legal actions against the company over
