Supreme Court rules 7-2 that Bayer’s Roundup need not carry a cancer warning label

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding that glyphosate is “unlikely” to cause cancer preempts state-court lawsuits seeking a cancer warning label on Bayer’s Roundup. The case stems from a Missouri man, John Durnell, who alleged that decades of Roundup use caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma and won $1.25 million from a jury. The Trump administration supported Bayer’s appeal, while the Biden administration previously took the opposite position in a separate Roundup-related case. The EPA’s 2020 conclusion has not been updated, while the International Agency for Research on Cancer continues to classify glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”