Earlier this week, on February 17, 2026, agrochemical maker Bayer, who purchased fellow agrochemical maker Monsanto in 2018, and inherited the Roundup brand of herbicides containing glyphosate, which has been linked to cancer, announced a $7.25 billion settlement with cancer patients due to their use of glyphosate.
Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.
The proposed settlement comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments in April on Bayer’s assertion that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of Roundup without a cancer warning should invalidate claims filed in state courts. (Full article.)
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The very next day, on February 18, 2026, President Trump issued an executive order mandating domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, for use in agriculture and the military.
Here is the announcement from the White House:
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides for National Security
BOLSTERING NATIONAL SECURITY BY PRESERVING CRITICAL SUPPLY CHAINS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order mobilizing the Defense Production Act to protect domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides — two critical inputs essential to military readiness and America’s agricultural strength, respectively.
COUNTERING THREATS TO AMERICA’S DEFENSE AND FOOD SECURITY: President Trump is acting to ensure domestic production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides, the loss of which would cripple critical supply chains.
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This executive order gives further evidence that chemical companies like Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of using their herbicide chemicals in both the military and agriculture.
In the military, uses of their chemicals kill people, such as Monsanto’s “Agent Orange” which was used in the Vietnam war.
In the agricultural use of their chemicals, they kill weeds while protecting genetically modified crops that have been engineered to survive being sprayed with these killer chemicals, such as Roundup.
Health Impact News has been one of the leading alternative news sites in the U.S. covering the dangers of glyphosate for almost a decade-and-a-half now, and a search for the term “glyphosate” will yield a result of almost 400 articles during that time span on Health Impact News.
In the mid 2010’s, two MIT scientists, Dr. Anthony Samsel and Dr. Stephanie Seneff, along with Dr. Don M. Huber, Professor Emeritus of Plant Pathology at Purdue University, began to warn the public about secret documents held by the EPA over the dangers of glyphosate, and its pervasive negative impact on human health.
I assigned my top investigative health reporter at that time, the late John P. Thomas, to research this issue, and he conducted a series of interviews with Dr. Huber and Dr. Seneff in 2014 which I published in two different articles:
In March of 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is part of the World Health Organization (WHO), released a report listing glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic” in causing non-Hodgkin lymphoma and prostate cancer.
