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Roundup weed killing products are offered for sale at a home improvement store on May 14, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois (Scott Olson\/Getty Images).<\/p>\n
German chemical giant Bayer has agreed to pay $7.25 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer.<\/p>\n
The proposed settlement \u2014 which must be approved by a St. Louis court \u2014 would compensate people nationwide who were exposed to Roundup products and diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, as well as those who are diagnosed in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen an innocent person is harmed through no fault of their own, accountability is not optional \u2014 it is necessary,\u201d said Eric Holland, a St. Louis attorney for plaintiffs. \u201cWhile no financial recovery can reverse a diagnosis or turn back time, this settlement will provide substantial support and offer stability to the families who need it most.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bayer has faced an avalanche of litigation contending that glyphosate \u2014 an ingredient patented by Missouri-based Monsanto in 1971 \u2014 can cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and that Roundup labels failed to warn users about the risk.<\/p>\n
Bayer acquired Monsanto in 2018 and operates its U.S. agricultural business as Bayer Crop Science.<\/p>\n
The company has paid about $11 billion to settle nearly 100,000 Roundup lawsuits, with roughly 61,000 still pending, according to a website that tracks the litigation. Bayer has already stopped making glyphosate-based Roundup for home use and, in September, said it was seeking regulatory approval for a new herbicide to replace glyphosate-based Roundup for agricultural and commercial use in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Australia and Brazil.<\/p>\n
The new settlement follows the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision to hear Bayer\u2019s appeal arguing that federal law preempts state failure-to-warn claims involving the Roundup label. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not require Roundup labels to warn about non-Hodgkin lymphoma.<\/p>\n
In Missouri, Bayer has spent the last two years pushing lawmakers to pass legislation that would shield the company from certain lawsuits. The bill narrowly passed the Missouri House last year, but lobbying missteps \u2014 including a campaign targeting some of the most conservative members of the state Senate \u2014 ultimately derailed the effort.<\/p>\n
In October, the Missouri Supreme Court declined to hear Bayer\u2019s appeal of a $600 million judgment in a Roundup lawsuit brought by four people who said they developed cancer after regularly using the product to control weeds.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Roundup weed killing products are offered for sale at a home improvement store on May 14, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois (Scott Olson\/Getty Images). German chemical giant Bayer has agreed to pay $7.25 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. The proposed settlement \u2014 which must be approved by a St….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n