A coalition of 54 agriculture groups is urging the Biden administration to drop its support for allowing states to impose their own warning labels—in addition to federal labels—on consumer products.
The request came after U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar asked the Supreme Court to refrain from taking up an herbicide liability case known as Monsanto Co. v. Hardeman, court file 21-241.
In the appeal, chemicals giant Bayer Aktiengesellschaft (Bayer AG) is asking the high court to overturn an appeals court ruling that upheld awarding damages to a customer blaming his cancer on Roundup, as The Epoch Times previously reported. Roundup is a glyphosate-based weed-killer that has been on the market since the 1970s. The petition was filed with the court in August 2021, but the justices have yet to act on it….