Following a $15 million award for compensatory damages, a federal jury has awarded a Missouri peach farm $250 million in punitive damages in its dicamba drift case against Bayer and BASF.

Bayer is touting a new herbicide molecule that it says offers “the first new post-emergence mode of action for broad-acre weed control in 30 years.”

The Environmental Protection Agency reaffirms that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, is safe to use and unlikely to cause cancer.

A Virginia lawyer heavily involved in Roundup litigation has been charged with attempted extortion for “threatening to inflict substantial financial and reputational harm” on an unnamed chemical company unless he received $200 million in “consulting fees,” the Justice Department says.