The Minister for the Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, reversed her own law banning the use of neonicotinoids. This decision echoes the move to ban another pesticide: glyphosate. An aborted promise by Emmanuel Macron, a prelude to Nicolas Hulot's resignation from the government in August 2018. Bête noire of environmentalists, the herbicide deemed "potentially carcinogenic" by the World Health Organization (WHO) has polarized this year there, a heated political battle over the relevance of its ban in French law.
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The controversy took over Parliament in October 2017, when European Union experts were preparing to renew the authorization of glyphosate, an active ingredient in Roundup marketed by the Monsanto company, for an additional five years. About fifty deputies La République en Marche (LREM) - including environmentalists Matthieu Orphelin and Barbara Pompili - call for "getting out of glyphosate", while the herbicide is already
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