Monsanto Weedkiller Case Could Upend Billions in Compensation
A display of Roundup bottles inside Monsanto headquarters in St. Louis on May 21, 2009. Brent Stirton/Getty Images.
A display of Roundup bottles inside Monsanto headquarters in St. Louis on May 21, 2009. Brent Stirton/Getty Images.

Monsanto Weedkiller Case Could Upend Billions in Compensation

The court must decide whether the EPA’s position that glyphosate needs no cancer warning shields companies from state lawsuits.
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Like countless homeowners, John Durnell of Missouri used a popular herbicide to keep his home and community free from unwanted weeds.

He used the chemical from the 1990s until 2018, when he developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a diagnosis he blames on an ingredient known as glyphosate in his Roundup weedkiller.
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