Glyphosate at the Supreme Court, How Oil Fuels Conflict, The Indigenous Fight to Save Bristol Bay, and more.

About this episode

The episode discusses the Supreme Court case regarding glyphosate, the impact of oil conflicts, and the Indigenous fight to protect Bristol Bay.

The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments for Monsanto v. Durnell, a case about whether states can require warning labels on pesticides if the EPA does not. This stems from thousands of lawsuits against Roundup maker Monsanto, alleging that farmers and landscapers who developed cancer weren’t warned of the risks. Though the World Health organization has classified glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, as “probably carcinogenic”, the EPA has not found glyphosate can cause cancer. Also, the US-Israel joint war against Iran has shaken global energy markets, closed the Strait of Hormuz and restricted the flow of oil and natural gas worldwide. It's the latest of conflicts over Iranian oil, though for the first time the growing emergence of fossil free energy sources is prompting visions of ending our decades of dependence on oil, with its pollution and inevitable wars. And in 2001, a Canadian mining company proposed a massive gold and copper mine at the headwaters of pristine Bristol Bay, Alaska. Local Native Alaskans became concerned about how the mine could harm their plentiful sockeye salmon run, a cultural and economic lifeblood. Alannah Acaq Hurley, Executive…

People in this episode

Host: Living on Earth

Guest: Alannah Acaq Hurley

Topics covered

• glyphosate
• Supreme Court
• oil conflict
• Indigenous rights
• environmental activism
• Bristol Bay
• pesticides

Keywords

• glyphosate
• Supreme Court
• Monsanto
• Bristol Bay
• oil conflict
• environmental activism
• cancer risk
• Indigenous rights
• Roundup
• EPA

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Monsanto, World Health Organization, EPA

Products: Roundup

Places: United States, Iran, Bristol Bay, Alaska

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