By: Charles Benbrook Loss of Failure to Warn Claims in Litigation will Help Shield Pesticide Registrants from Accountability and Undermine the Role of States in Pesticide Regulation The Supreme Court’s decision announced today will markedly limit the role of litigation…
By: Charles Benbrook, Strategic Advisor, Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) Updated May 27, 2026 To view the entire post as a PDF, click here. To read the full HHRA brief submitted to the Supreme Court, click here. To read HHRA's…
HHRA’s major project, the Heartland Study, is designed to determine whether prenatal exposures to pesticides, and especially herbicides, are contributing to problems during pregnancy like preeclampsia, preterm birth, or developmental abnormalities. We already know that a healthy diet reduces the…
Note to Readers and FEVER Act Contributors From: Chuck Benbrook, HHRA Consultant On this first day of 2026, we are pleased to share V.2 of the “Farm Economic Vitality and Environmental Recovery Act” (pdf of V.2 FEVER Act). The text…
In the mid-1980s when I was the Executive Director of the Board on Agriculture in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), I had the privilege of working with some of the nation’s top weed scientists who had already become concerned…
Reporter Emily Unglesbee with DTN/Progressive Farmer has done solid reporting for years now on the trials and tribulations of dicamba herbicide and the XtendiMax GMO soybean and cotton seeds it has been applied on since 2016. Dicamba is one of…