#monsanto maui

Monsanto Company agreed to plead guilty to 30 environmental crimes related to the use of a pesticide on corn fields in Hawaiʻi.

The County of Maui Department of Environmental Management this week notified the US Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Health, reporting October 2016 findings from wastewater test samples of the presence of nitrophenol. The chemical is a metabolite of methyl parathion, the active ingredient in Penncap-M, the same banned pesticide identified in the recent Monsanto case on Maui.

Monsanto Agrees to Plead Guilty to Illegally Spraying Banned Pesticide at Maui Facility; also Enters into Deferred Prosecution Agreement that Calls for $10 Million Payment Related to Storage of Banned Pesticide on Maui and Molokaʻi.

Both families lived in Hale Piʻilani, a residential neighborhood located less than 500 yards from Monsanto’s Mokulele fields in Kīhei, Maui.

A man noted as being the first plaintiff to win a lawsuit brought against Monsanto/Bayer, met with government land management agencies and policy-makers on Maui

Applications are now being accepted for the Monsanto Hawaiʻi Science Education Fund. The next application deadline is Oct. 6, 2016.

Maui United Way and other nonprofits on O‘ahu and Moloka‘i received a total of $32,450 from the Monsanto Fund as part of the organization’s annual gift to communities across the country.

The deadline is Feb. 8 for applications for the Monsanto Hawai‘i Science Education Fund, which is open to public schools serving students at the intermediate, high school and college grade levels on O‘ahu, Maui and Moloka‘i.

Monsanto Hawaiʻi has announced that it’s Molokaʻi farm has become the first company in Hawaiʻi to achieve “Wildlife at Work” certification by the nonprofit Wildlife Habitat Council.

Event organizers say 200 people planted 100 coconut trees and over 2 acres of taro, sweet potato and yams, as a statement that “the community can and will feed itself without Monsanto.”

Organizers say they intend to plant food “with a goal of bringing Maui one step closer to food sovereignty and a future that is not dependent on chemical agriculture.”

The SHAKA Movement on Maui filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court, seeking an evidentiary hearing before continuing an injunction that delays the implementation of the Maui GMO moratorium.

Members of the SHAKA Movement (Sustainable Hawaiian Agriculture for the Keiki and the ‘Āina) are expressing outrage at a recent Maui County decision to take “no position” on defending the moratorium on GMO cultivation in Maui County.

The Monsanto Hawai‘i Science Education Fund recently awarded 13 of the state’s public schools and educational organizations with over $12,000 in grant money.

Approximately 60 Monsanto employees, friends and family participated in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Maui last November.

Maui Monsanto employees gave a helping hand to Santa this season by holding a toy drive to benefit underprivileged Maui children.

A coalition of grassroots groups host a sign waving demonstration on Maui today in an effort to bring attention to health and welfare issues relating to genetically modified organisms, and GMO farming.

Proponents of the recently passed GMO Initiative on Maui are seeking intervention in a federal court lawsuit filed by Monsanto Hawaiʻi after a judge granted a request preventing the referendum from taking effect until the full legal merits of the lawsuit are considered.

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by Monsanto Hawaiʻi against the County of Maui, preventing the recently passed GMO initiative from taking effect until the court considers its legal merits further, company representatives said.

Five Maui residents filed a lawsuit in Second Circuit court on Wednesday, seeking “declaratory relief to assure transparency and the proper implementation,” of the newly passed initiative that places a moratorium on GMO cultivation in Maui County.