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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, December 22, 2020)\u00a0Opening arguments and evidence<\/a>\u00a0were filed by a coalition of farmworkers, farmers, and conservationists last week in litigation challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) re-approval of\u00a0glyphosate<\/a>, best known as the active ingredient in Monsanto’s “Roundup” pesticides. The lawsuit charges that the Trump Administration unlawfully ignored cancer risks and ecological damage of glyphosate.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Represented by the Center for Food Safety (CFS), plaintiffs, including the Rural Coalition, Farmworker Association of Florida, Organizaci\u00f3n en California de Lideres Campesinas, and Beyond Pesticides,\u00a0filed the federal lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in March. The groups seek to have the pesticide prohibited from use or sale because of its unlawful approval.<\/p>\r\n

“Farmworkers are on the frontlines of nearly every health and environmental crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic to climate change, and are particularly at risk of health impacts from pesticide spraying,”\u00a0said Amy van Saun, senior attorney at CFS.\u00a0“EPA failed these essential workers. It rejected evidence that glyphosate causes cancer and entirely failed to assess the main way people are exposed at work, through their skin.”<\/p>\r\n

The court filing includes volumes of evidence showing how EPA ignored glyphosate’s health risks, including cancer risks, to farmworkers and farmers exposed during spraying. The evidence filed also shows how EPA disregarded glyphosate’s ecological impacts and that EPA failed to account for the costs to farmers from glyphosate-resistant “superweeds” and off-field drift damage.<\/p>\r\n

“Farmworkers and farmers are the backbone of our food system. As we demonstrate in this filing, they are the first\u2014but not the last\u2014to bear the huge costs of EPA’s deeply flawed and unlawful re-approval of glyphosate, while corporate shareholders of Monsanto-Bayer benefit,”\u00a0said John Zippert, chairperson of the Rural Coalition, the lead petitioner in the case.<\/p>\r\n

While EPA once recognized glyphosate might cause cancer, it now finds this possibility to be “not likely.” In contrast, the world’s foremost cancer authorities with the World Health Organization determined in 2015 that glyphosate is ‘probably carcinogenic to humans.’ In June, Bayer\u00a0agreed to pay up to $10.9 billion<\/a>\u00a0to roughly 125,000 people in thousands of lawsuits arguing Roundup was responsible for their non-Hodgkin lymphomas, a cancer that originates in lymph tissue. The plaintiffs have prevailed in all the\u00a0trials so far<\/a>, with victims awarded $25-80 million in each case.<\/p>\r\n

“Farmworkers cannot wait any longer for EPA to ban glyphosate\u2014a pesticide that risks their health and the health of their children,”\u00a0said Jeannie Economos of the Farmworker Association of Florida, a plaintiff in the case.\u00a0“The public now knows that farmworkers are ‘essential workers,’ but they have always been essential. Their work feeds the people of this country and they deserve to be protected from a pesticide known to cause chronic diseases.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

EPA also issued the challenged re-approval without any consideration of the dire risks glyphosate poses to threatened and endangered species. A belated EPA assessment\u2014which was required by law before the approval, not after\u2014has now confirmed these risks, finding that glyphosate will likely have\u00a0adverse effects<\/a>\u00a0on at least 1,676 different species protected by the Endangered Species Act (93% of those exposed) and on 96% of their critical habitats. Instead of ensuring this pesticide will not cause the extinction of these species, EPA’s decision allows it to be sprayed on 285 million acres of farmland a year, with 21 million pounds applied to forests, parks, lawns, schoolyards, and roadways.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Additionally, the lawsuit alleges EPA failed to account for the risks glyphosate poses to honey bees, other pollinators, and the iconic Monarch butterfly. Monarch butterflies face possible extinction due in part to glyphosate’s near-eradication of their critical host plant, common milkweed, from Midwest farm fields. On December 15th, in response to a 2014 CFS petition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife confirmed the Monarchs’ precarious state, concluding that\u00a0Monarchs warrant protected status<\/a>\u00a0under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), though formal listing was postponed to 2024 due to the Service’s backlog of other ESA cases.<\/p>\r\n

“Glyphosate use and resulting exposures represent a serious threat to the safety of people and the environment, including many hundreds of endangered species\u2014facts astonishingly ignored by regulators,”\u00a0said Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides, a plaintiff in the case.\u00a0“It is unfortunate that it takes a lawsuit like this to force EPA to carry out its responsibility in the face of a mountain of scientific findings that document glyphosate’s harm,” Mr. Feldman added.<\/p>\r\n

The lawsuit comes after EPA earlier this month released its draft biological evaluation (BE) of glyphosate. The assessment, covered in an earlier Daily News<\/a>, indicates that use of this ubiquitous herbicide likely threatens nearly every animal and plant species on the\u00a0U.S. list of threatened and endangered species<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 93% of them.<\/p>\r\n

The evidence filed in the lawsuit also reveals EPA’s failure to assess the substantial costs incurred by farmers due to the glyphosate-resistant weed epidemic unleashed by massive use of this herbicide on genetically-engineered crops, as well as plant and crop damage from glyphosate drift.<\/p>\r\n

“The industry’s response to glyphosate-resistant weeds has been crops resistant to additional herbicides like dicamba, which has caused enormous drift damage and still more intractable weeds,”\u00a0said Bill Freese, science policy analyst at CFS.\u00a0“EPA has done nothing to halt or even slow this toxic spiral of increasing resistance and herbicide use.”<\/p>\r\n

Glyphosate use has been steadily increasing with the introduction and growth of genetically engineered, herbicide-tolerant crops. As public exposure to the chemical grows, there is a correlated increase with chronic diseases<\/a>. Organic land management in agriculture<\/a> and lawns, parks and playing fields<\/a> has grown to an economically viable alternative to chemical-intensive, genetically engineered crop production and conventional turf management, despite efforts to weaken organic law<\/a>. For action that can be taken to ban glyphosate and adopt organic practices and policies in states and communities, see Beyond Pesticides action Ban Glyphosate-Adopt Organic campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

Source: Center for Food Safety<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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