Month: August 2017

Why Forbes deleted Kavin Senapathy’s articles

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Kavin Senapathy emerged as a writer in 2015 with articles promoting GMOs, defending pesticides and attacking critics of the agrichemical industry, many of them published in Forbes. She does not disclose her funding sources. In 2017, Forbes deleted seven articles Senapathy co-authored with Henry I. Miller, a former Hoover Institution fellow, following revelations in the Why Forbes deleted Kavin Senapathy’s articles

Collusion or Coincidence? Records Show EPA Efforts to Slow Herbicide Review Came in Coordination with Monsanto

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Newly released government email communications show a persistent effort by multiple officials within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to slow a separate federal agency’s safety review of Monsanto’s top-selling herbicide. Notably, the records demonstrate that the EPA efforts came at the behest of Monsanto, and that EPA officials were helpful enough to keep the chemical Collusion or Coincidence? Records Show EPA Efforts to Slow Herbicide Review Came in Coordination with Monsanto

What’s in Roundup? Internal EPA Documents Show Scramble for Data

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By Carey Gillam As agrochemical giant  Monsanto Co.  faces a growing wave of U.S. lawsuits over its top-selling  Roundup herbicide line, among its key defense arguments is that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has long backed the safety of the weed-killing products. And indeed, the EPA has been a stalwart supporter of Monsanto Co.’s What’s in Roundup? Internal EPA Documents Show Scramble for Data

New ‘Monsanto Papers’ Add To Questions Of Regulatory Collusion, Scientific Mischief

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The other shoe just dropped. Four months after the publication of a batch of internal Monsanto Co. documents stirred international controversy, a new trove of company records was released early Tuesday, providing fresh fuel for a heated global debate over whether or not the agricultural chemical giant suppressed information about the potential dangers of its New ‘Monsanto Papers’ Add To Questions Of Regulatory Collusion, Scientific Mischief