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Seattle City Council Member Kshama SawantPhoto: GettyAn ugly fight in 2018 saw Amazon and other business interests strong-arm the Seattle City Council into repealing a small tax meant to alleviate the city’s homelessness crisis. Today, in a bold challenge to Jeff Bezos and other oligarchs of the Pacific Northwest who…

CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Bayer AG’s takeover of Monsanto has been beset by problems, and now a decades-long dominance of the $4 billion U.S. soybean seed market is under threat from rival Corteva Inc. FILE PHOTO: Soybeans are harvested from a field on Hodgen Farm in Roachdale, Indiana, U.S. November…

Leverkusen Mar 17, 2020 (Thomson StreetEvents) -- Edited Transcript of Bayer AG earnings conference call or presentation Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 9:00:00am GMTBayer Aktiengesellschaft - Head of Communications, Government Relations and Corporate BrandBayer Aktiengesellschaft - President of Pharmaceuticals Division & Member of the Board of Management* Wolfgang U. NicklMichael…

Chemical fertilizer plant, San Joaquin Valley. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and has $46.8 billion in assets (December 2018). It is the largest charitable foundation in the world and distributes more aid for global health than any government. One of the…

Bayer, which is fighting claims its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer, announced its Chairman Werner Wenning was stepping down because the drug and chemical company was making good progress in settlement talks. Wenning was one of the architects of a $63 billion Monsanto takeover deal. 73-year-old Wenning’s term as chairman of…

No rush to settle Roundup lawsuits, Bayer CEO says LEVERKUSEN, Germany — German drugs and pesticides company Bayer worked on Thursday to quell expectations it was nearing an out-of-court settlement laying to rest claims its glyphosate-based weedkillers cause cancer.Bayer said after publishing its earnings outlook for 2020 it was in…

competitions Tough Mudder taken over by Spartan RaceTough Mudder Inc., the organizer of extreme obstacle races that was forced into bankruptcy by creditors, will be taken over by its main competitor, Spartan Race. Under a deal approved Tuesday in federal court in Wilmington, Spartan will pay $700,000 and assume as…

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By The Associated PressWed., Feb. 26, 2020timer1 min. readFRANKFURT - Bayer AG board chairman Werner Wenning is stepping down from his post at the drug and chemical company, which is facing a major legal battle over its Roundup weed killer.Wenning, who is 73, said he had planned to leave last…

The board chairman is stepping down at Germany's Bayer AG as the company faces legal claims in the US over a weed killer that plaintiffs say causes cancerFebruary 26, 2020, 5:10 PM2 min readFRANKFURT, Germany -- Bayer AG board chairman Werner Wenning is stepping down from his post at the…