Supreme Court: Agency Capture Shields Bayer’s Monsanto Mass Harm

The early 1970s had some logic. Rivers were burning, air was unbreathable, pesticides like DDT were moving through whole ecosystems. Meanwhile, American tort law crawled case by case. Common-law suits could not regulate the rampant abuse of the public by a continental chemical economy, let alone a foreign one. An agency, however, could set standards … Continue reading Supreme Court: Agency Capture Shields Bayer’s Monsanto Mass Harm →