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Vibrio Bacteria in Beach Water Can Make You Seriously Ill

Scientific American

alginolyticus illnesses first appeared outside the Gulf Coast region in 1999, in North Carolina, and were reported as far north as Maine by the end of 2004. This movement accelerated in 2023 and 2024, when deaths linked to V. vulnificus occurred in major cities in New York State, Rhode Island and Connecticut—a striking advance.

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Good & Bad Environmental News From the U.S. Supreme Court

Legal Planet

It was not until: 1) California began to aggressively regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles in 2004; the Supreme Court ruled in its landmark Massachusetts v. Both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations routinely granted over 100 California waiver requests during this period.

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'Badly Broken' Bayer postpones split to improve performance

Corp Watch

Corporation Bayer Image Image Products pharmaceuticals, v eterinary drugs, diagnostic imaging, general and specialty medicines, women's health products, over-the-counter drugs, pesticides, seeds, plant biotechnology. Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Roundup lawsuit: Bayer ordered to pay Pa. man $2.25B after jury finds weed killer caused cancer

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Monsanto ordered to pay $857 million to Washington school students and parent volunteers over toxic PCBs

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Corporation Bayer Image Image Products pharmaceuticals, v eterinary drugs, diagnostic imaging, general and specialty medicines, women's health products, over-the-counter drugs, pesticides, seeds, plant biotechnology. Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Bayer ordered to pay $1.56 billion in latest US trial loss over Roundup weedkiller

Corp Watch

Total Penalties $794,315,508 (April 6, 2021) Number of Records 131 Books A Growing Concern: Protecting the Food Supply in an Era of Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crops (Union of Concerned Scientists ,December, 2004). Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).

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Bayer must pay $1.25 million in Roundup cancer trial, jury finds

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Corporation Bayer Image Image Products pharmaceuticals, v eterinary drugs, diagnostic imaging, general and specialty medicines, women's health products, over-the-counter drugs, pesticides, seeds, plant biotechnology. Application of Biotechnology for Functional Foods (Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, May 2007).