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The Paraquat Papers: Inside the Decades-Long Corporate Campaign to Keep a Parkinson’s-Linked Pesticide on U.S. Fields

By Reynand Wu

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September 23, 2026

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This investigative report is based on original documentation published by The New Lede. For over four decades, a global consensus has steadily crystallized around the dangers of paraquat, a potent and lethal herbicide. While Sweden took the lead in 1983…