Pesticide industry officials and environmentalists are waging competing claims over the public health risks from the world’s most commonly-used herbicide glyphosate in comments to a delayed EPA Science Advisory Panel (SAP), highlighting the challenge the panel faces in its pending work to assess evidence on the substance’s risks. Read more
Read More »The Environmental Protection Agency was slated to hold four days of public meetings focused on essentially one question: Is glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide and the lynchpin to Monsanto’s fortunes, as safe as Monsanto has spent 40 years telling us it is? Read more
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The Agriculture Department needs to convince farmers that it’s in their best interest to employ practices to counter climate change and curb farm runoff, while resolving other environmental issues, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said today. The message would be better received from USDA, than EPA, she added. The EPA needs[…]
Read More »EPA’s National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT) is poised to release by the end of the year a report calling on the agency to back the use of “citizen science” environmental data gathered by the public using personal devices, including a single EPA official to coordinate agency[…]
Read More »EPA is currently taking comment through Oct. 4 on its June 6 draft review that found the nation’s second-most commonly-used herbicide poses risks to species, including aquatic plants and some mammals, and suggested possible restrictions. Read more
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National Corn Growers Association Chief Executive Officer Chris Novak testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on consolidation and competition in the U.S. seed and agrochemical industry. “These barriers slow down innovation and drive up the cost of seed and chemicals.” Read more
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“Based on need for consistency, and to account for all the new and deliberative discussions [in which EPA] has taken part related to epidemiological data in the last 6 years — and to follow the 2011 White House directive — CLA is asking that EPA at minimum publish for public[…]
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