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\"\"(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, March 23, 2020)\u00a0Ignoring science to side with Monsanto\/Bayer, EPA has repeatedly failed to assess glyphosate\u2019s impacts on public health and endangered species.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last week, a broad coalition of farmworkers, farmers, and conservationists, filed a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its January 2020 re-approval of the pesticide glyphosate, best known as the active ingredient in Monsanto\u2019s Roundup pesticides. With Center for Food Safety (CFS) serving as legal counsel, the suing organizations are\u00a0 Beyond Pesticides, the Rural Coalition, Organizaci\u00f3n en California de Lideres Campesinas, and the Farmworker Association of Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n

While EPA defends glyphosate, juries in several cases have found it to cause cancer, ruling in favor of those impacted by exposure. Glyphosate formulations like Roundup are also well-established as having numerous damaging environmental impacts. After a registration review process spanning over a decade, EPA allowed the continued marketing of the pesticide despite the agency\u2019s failure to fully assess glyphosate\u2019s hormone-disrupting potential or its effects on threatened and endangered species. The review began in 2009, has already taken 11 years, without a full assessment of the widespread harmful impacts on people and the environment in that time period.<\/p>\n

\u201cEPA\u2019s half-completed, biased, and unlawful approval sacrifices the health of farmworkers and endangered species at the altar of Monsanto profits,\u201d said George Kimbrell, legal director for CFS and counsel for the coalition. \u201cThe reckoning for Roundup is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

While EPA has declared that glyphosate does not cause cancer, the world\u2019s foremost cancer authorities with the World Health Organization declared glyphosate to be \u2018probably carcinogenic to humans\u2019 in 2015. Over 40,000 lawsuits have been filed against the Monsanto (recently acquired by Bayer) by cancer victims asserting that exposure to Roundup caused them or their loved ones to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, including many farmworkers. Plaintiffs have prevailed in the three cases decided thus far, with victims awarded roughly $80 million in each case.<\/p>\n

\u201cContrary to the Trump EPA\u2019s claims, both regulatory and independent scientific studies demonstrate that glyphosate herbicides are carcinogenic and have adverse effects on internal organs,\u201d said Bill Freese, science policy analyst at CFS. \u201cFar from consulting the \u2018best available science,\u2019 as EPA claims, the agency has relied almost entirely on Monsanto studies, cherry-picking the data that suits its purpose and dismissing the rest,” added Mr. Freese. \u201cEPA\u2019s glyphosate decision shows the same hostility to science that we\u2019ve come to expect from this administration, whether the issue is climate change or environmental health.\u201d<\/p>\n

EPA judged glyphosate far more critically in the 1980s, when the agency designated it a possible carcinogen and identified harmful effects on the liver, kidney, and reproductive systems. Thanks to pressure from Monsanto\/Bayer, EPA has since dismissed these harms and illegitimately raised the safety threshold \u2013 the daily amount of glyphosate regarded as safe over a lifetime \u2013 by 20 times.<\/p>\n

\u201cFarmers and Farmworkers are the backbone of America, and EPA\u2019s irresponsible decision risks their health for Monsanto profits,\u201d said Lorette Picciano, executive director of the Rural Coalition.<\/p>\n

EPA has also failed to collect basic data on how much glyphosate is taken into human bodies via skin contact or inhalation of spray droplets. These exposure routes are particularly significant for farmworkers and others who work around and\/or use Roundup, the very people who are at greatest risk of cancer and other health harms.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many more farmworkers have to suffer health impacts to themselves and their families before EPA \u201csees\u201d them \u2013 the \u201cinvisible people\u201d \u2013 and takes action?\u201d said Jeannie Economos of the Farmworker Association of Florida. \u201cEPA must protect human health before one more person suffers acute or chronic illness from exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFarmworkers are on the front lines of the pesticide exposure crisis providing vital food for American families,\u201d said Suguet Lopez of the Organizaci\u00f3n en California de Lideres Campesinas. \u201cThey deserve a duty of care from the government which it has failed to provide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glyphosate herbicides also threaten numerous species, including fish, amphibians, and aquatic as well as terrestrial plants. EPA discounts these risks by low-balling exposure estimates and ignoring critical studies showing glyphosate\u2019s potency, and by relying on ineffective and toothless changes to the language on glyphosate herbicide product labels to \u201cmitigate\u201d risks. Even worse, despite again registering the pesticide, EPA failed to complete any assessment of its impacts on thousands of potentially harmed endangered species, delaying it until a future decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cEPA failed to consider if Roundup disrupts the balance of nature and ecosystem health, critical to the survival of a vast number of organisms on which life depends \u2013from beneficial insects, such as parasitoid wasps, lacewings, ladybugs, and endangered bumblebees, monarch butterflies, to fish, small mammals, and amphibians,\u201d said Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides.<\/p>\n

To give just one example, the massive use of glyphosate has nearly eradicated milkweed, the monarch butterfly\u2019s host plant, from Midwest farmers\u2019 fields, a major factor in the catastrophic decline in monarchs over the past two decades. Even though monarchs are under consideration for protection under the Endangered Species Act, EPA\u2019s registration decision contains no effective measures to protect milkweed and monarchs from still more glyphosate damage.<\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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