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North Dakota and Glyphosate

Bayer CEO Bill Anderson averred in a recent Wall Street Journal interview that the company will make a decision “in months” - not years – whether it will remain the only domestic producer of glyphosate in the U.S. Anderson became CEO in 2023 and at the time promised to have the Roundup litigation “under control” by 2026. Consider the history of glyphosate: In August 2018, a California jury awarded a man $289 million in damages after he claimed using Roundup caused his cancer. Moreover, to-date Bayer has paid more than $10 billion to plaintiffs in litigation. This is on top of the $63 billion Bayer paid to acquire Monsanto. Of course, not all of that capital is allocated to the Roundup product line, but it gives...

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