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The specific proposed language added to the appropriations bill blocked federal funds from being used to issue or adopt any guidance or any policy, take any regulatory action, or approve any labeling or change to such labeling inconsistent with the conclusion of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) human health assessment. The EPA itself would not be able to update warnings without finalizing a new assessment, the critics said.

The long-running legal fight over Bayer's weedkiller Roundup has seen nearly 200,000 cancer claims filed in US courts over the past seven years and is now being turned into a political tug of war. In prior Roundup lawsuits, the US Justice Department under former President Joe Biden, had argued that consumers should be allowed to pursue damages against Germany's chemical giant, with most claims involving nonHodgkin lymphoma after long-term exposure to the pesticide.

Bayer has evicted the residents of a homeless encampment on a stretch of a West Berkeley street that the city turned over to the pharmaceutical giant earlier this year. The pharmaceutical giant hasn't said when it might evict the homeless encampment at the west end of Carleton Street, or whether residents will be offered shelter first. The sweep before dawn on Tuesday was the moment camp residents had feared since the Berkeley City Council approved a plan this summer

The grants are part of the New York Pollinator Conservation Fund, a multi-million-dollar initiative launched by the Office of the Attorney General using proceeds from a 2023 settlement with Bayer CropScience and Monsanto.