Today, between 11 million and 17 million pounds of paraquat are sprayed annually to help grow cotton, soybean and corn fields, among other crops, throughout the country, the U.S. Geological Survey, ...

This announcement is good news overall, but we have a long way to go when it comes to a full paraquat ban. Syngenta is the Swiss-based agrichemical giant behind the weedkiller Gramoxone, a ...

This report highlights, among other notable points, “that every stage of the paraquat supply chain—which spans the globe—emits greenhouse gases and toxic air pollutants.” With SinoChem as the lead ...

In 2025, MLive in Michigan and AL.com in Alabama investigated the current use of paraquat, a heavily regulated weed killer that’s the subject of thousands of lawsuits claiming it’s linked to Parkinson ...