Patrick Breysse

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

Read the emails, texts that show EPA efforts to slow ATSDR glyphosate review

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Update: The ATSDR published their draft toxicological profile for glyphosate in April 2019. See coverage:  ATSDR Report Confirms Glyphosate Cancer Risks,  NRDC (4.11.2019);  Some Links to Cancer Shown in Draft Review of Common Pesticide, Bloomberg (4.8.2019);  Emails Show Monsanto Cozy with Feds,  Courthouse News (4.15.2019). This article by Carey Gillam was originally published in Huffington Read the emails, texts that show EPA efforts to slow ATSDR glyphosate review