Bayer and its allies in the Trump Administration got their day in court in Monsanto v. Durnell, a man who used Roundup for more than 20 years and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2018, sued Monsanto and received $1.25 million in damages from a Missouri jury on the grounds that Monsanto had failed to warn him against the dangers of Roundup. President Trump issued an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to mandate the ongoing production of glyphosate and to provide immunity to Bayer and other glyphosate producers.

This morning, a crowd gathered near the Supreme Court to protest the weed-killer Roundup. The headliners of the rally were Del Bigtree, Alex Clark, Zen Honeycutt and Vani Hari. The rally’s roughly 30 speakers included environmental activists and politicians from both parties. President Trump passed an executive order to boost domestic glyphosate production. The House is expected to vote on the Farm Bill this week.

The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments on Monday in the case Monsanto v. Durnell. The case involves a $1.25 million jury verdict in which a Missouri jury found that Monsanto failed to warn consumers about the potential carcinogenic risks of its Roundup weed killer. Bayer has been embroiled in a massive legal battle, defending against more than 100,000 lawsuits from plaintiffs who attribute their non-Hodgkin lymphoma to exposure from Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicides.

The EPA uses the linear non-threshold model as the basis for cancer risk assessment. This model is based on scientific fraud. The current Administration has emphasized using the "gold-standard science" for policy and regulatory decisions. The EPA has not adopted the LNT model because it would loosen environmental standards.

The EPA proposed a rule that would put microplastics and pharmaceuticals in drinking water on the list of contaminants that merit study, tracking, and possible regulation. The Department of Health and Human Services announced a $144 million ARPA-H program to standardize how microplastic are measured in the human body, study how they may cause harm and explore ways to reduce them.

Lebanon's minister for the environment has accused Israel's military of committing "an act of ecocide" in the foreword to a report detailing the harm done to the country's natural resources during the invasion of 2023 to 2024. The report estimates the monetary cost to Lebanon amounts to an estimated $25bn ($18bn), comprising $6.8bn in physical damages, $7.2bn in economic losses and $11bn in recovery and reconstruction needs.

Marine insurer Skuld has issued an advisory warning members of a pattern of on-spec but potentially problematic fuel being bunkered across Asia, particularly in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. High concentrations of hydrocarbon compounds, phenolic compounds and alkylresorcinol derivatives were found in VLSFO samples taken in Singapore.

34 people have been sickened with the same strain of Salmonella Saintpaul in the 2026 Backyard Poultry Outbreak. People get sick from backyard poultry in many ways, including touching the animals or something in their environment and without washing their hands.