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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, February 6, 2026)\u00a0The United States, under Donald Trump\u2019s direction, has withdrawn<\/a> from 66 international organizations, the most important for health being the United Nations\u2019 World Health Organization (WHO) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. International organizations committed to the application of the best available science and policy development via consultation and consensus serve as a vital check against rampant personal and industry nest-feathering at the expense of global health. The Trump administration has removed this check while expanding his and his associates\u2019 self-dealing<\/a> and dismissing the critical interactions of crises such as climate change and synthetic chemicals.<\/p>\r\n

Although Trump announced this move on inauguration day last year, the completion of the process last week puts the stamp of finality on his total abandonment of public health. This in turn threatens the collapse of WHO\u2014and even the U.N.<\/a>\u2014altogether, which has wide implications for agriculture, particularly pesticide policies, climate action (and inaction), and infectious disease monitoring, including vaccines and pandemic prevention. [See commentary: On Public and Environmental Health and Worldwide Collaboration<\/a>.]<\/p>\r\n

Other U.N. environmental, health, and agricultural organizations on the list are groups focused on forest degradation, freshwater and oceans, mining, minerals, metals, and sustainable development, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Non-U.N. organizations being ditched include a lead and zinc study group, renewable and energy groups, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the Pacific Regional Environment Program.<\/p>\r\n

According to reporting by StatNews<\/a><\/em> and Ars Technica<\/a><\/em>, Trump\u2019s first-term abandonment of WHO was reversed by the Biden administration, but in January 2025, he immediately refused to engage at all with the agency, complaining about dues payments, favoritism of China, and mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic. The U.S. owes the WHO $278 million in dues for the 2024-2025 budget cycle, stiffing the agency after a promise that the dues would be paid before the U.S. left; NPR<\/em> reports<\/a> that Trump has no intention of keeping that promise.<\/p>\r\n

Of the many centers of research and international collaboration maintained by WHO, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) focus most on the hazards of pesticides. Curiously, in April 2025, Trump cut off U.S. funding<\/a> from FAO but did not withdraw the U.S. from it at that time. Instead, on February 3 this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced<\/a> an agreement to deliver U.S.-grown foods such as soy and lentils to FAO\u2019s Food for Peace program. These products will undoubtedly be grown by conventional agriculture and laden with pesticide residues.<\/p>\r\n

Trump has thrown the baby out with the bathwater, supporting conventional agriculture and refusing to participate in regulatory infrastructure that health and environmental advocates say should be improved, not destroyed. One problem crying out to be corrected is industry influence.<\/p>\r\n

As Beyond Pesticides has stressed many times<\/a>, numerous investigations prove that the chemical industry routinely manipulates U.S. chemical policy. For example, Beyond Pesticides analyzed<\/a> the Union of Concerned Scientists\u2019 2018 report<\/a> on the corruption of science by industry at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).<\/p>\r\n

More infamously, Monsanto (now Bayer) has long exerted control of EPA\u2019s glyphosate<\/a> regulations. Its influence extends beyond U.S. borders as well. In 2015, WHO\u2019s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) determined<\/a> that glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans. The IARC glyphosate monograph swiftly triggered a concerted attack on the agency by many corporate groups and pro-industry experts. In addition, an October 2017 investigative report<\/a> by Reuters journalist Kate Kelland alleged that the monograph had been changed between a draft and the final version to suggest carcinogenicity in rodents when there was none, and that the agency\u2019s process was entirely opaque.<\/p>\r\n

But Monsanto\u2019s eliding of rodent tumor evidence began long before IARC\u2019s monograph. See this investigative report<\/a> by Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman in In These Times<\/em>\u2014published a month after Ms. Kelland\u2019s\u2014demonstrating that EPA scientists were convinced, based on rodent tumor studies, of glyphosate\u2019s carcinogenicity during its preparation for registration review in 1985<\/em>. EPA suppressed this evidence in favor of Monsanto\u2019s interests.<\/p>\r\n

IARC published a defense<\/a> of its monograph in 2018, noting that Ms. Kelland\u2019s information derived primarily from a review<\/a> provided to her by Monsanto, whose authors were affiliated with industry consultancies and the Glyphosate Task Force (now the Glyphosate Renewal Group<\/a>), a group of corporate proponents of glyphosate.<\/p>\r\n

IARC itself has long been criticized<\/a> by many experts and stakeholders for procedural weaknesses and failure to reveal the names and affiliations of members of its working groups. In the case of the glyphosate working groups, the panel members’ names were widely available, including the name of the chair\u2014Aaron Blair, PhD, MPH, former chief of the National Cancer Institute\u2019s Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch. A 2003 The Lancet<\/em> editorial<\/a> pointed out that agency weaknesses worked mostly to the advantage of industry: \u201c[I]ndustry often tried to slip in their unpublished data on the condition that such data remained confidential.\u201d According to The Lancet<\/em>, in another journal the year before, a former chief of an earlier IARC program reported that of 17 monographs, \u201cnearly a third of about 250 monograph authors were \u2018aligned\u2019 to industry, as were eight of 19 chairpersons or vice-chairpersons.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Yet industry has tried to turn the frustration with monograph panels\u2019 procedural challenges to its own advantage. In 2017, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) launched<\/a> a \u201cCampaign for Accuracy in Public Health Research\u201d to \u201ccorrect\u201d the IARC\u2019s monograph program\u2019s \u201clack of transparency, minimal consideration of the weight of scientific evidence, misapplied conflict of interest policies, and confusing communication of its monograph decisions.\u201d That campaign appears to now be moribund, its URL<\/a> now leading to the Foundation for Chemistry and Initiatives<\/a>, itself an ACC entity.<\/p>\r\n

However, attempts to rationalize the debate on glyphosate remain a focus of industrial resentment, and critiques continue. In 2024, a former National Cancer Institute statistician, Robert E. Tarone, called the IARC glyphosate report \u201cweaponized incompetence<\/a>\u201d at the industry-funded website Genetic Literacy Project and in a post<\/a> at the Substack Firebreak<\/a>, which specializes in attacking \u201cthe media, foundations and NGOs [nongovernmental organizations].\u201d<\/p>\r\n

Despite these attempts, the power gradient between science and industrial manipulation was dramatically reversed (at least temporarily) by the retraction<\/a> in 2025 of a Monsanto-funded review published in 2000. The review\u2014a typical means of industrial undermining of actual scientific studies\u2014was published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology<\/em> by one academically-affiliated author and two industry consultants. It found no human health hazards whatsoever from glyphosate. The journal editor retracted the review\u2014better a quarter-of-a-century late than never\u2014because its authors had misrepresented their contributions and failed to reveal both the study sponsor (Monsanto) and their own conflicts of interest.<\/p>\r\n

U.S. citizens are not completely bereft of connection with efforts to protect international environmental health. The Governors Public Health Alliance<\/a> (GPHA), comprising governors of 14 states and Guam, warns that Americans will be at far greater risk from disease without WHO membership. The group was formed to buttress public health within the country as Trump dismantles all federal capacity to respond to chronic health effects from environmental exposures, as well as new and emerging infectious diseases, but the GPHA intends to \u201cliaise with the global health community\u201d in the vacuum left by federal abandonment.<\/p>\r\n

Neither international nor national regulatory and scientific agencies are faultless. But claiming that scientists and regulators make decisions behind closed doors while ignoring the conflicts of interest posed by industry behind those doors is viewed by advocates as specious, hypocritical, and deeply harmful. Despite their flaws, Beyond Pesticides does not call for the abolishment of EPA, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, the Food and Drug Administration, or the Department of Agriculture. The organization calls for improvements and reform because the underlying need for the ins<\/em>ti<\/em>tu<\/em>ti<\/em>ons and their missions is critically important<\/em>. Trump takes a wrecking ball to international agreements and institutions that play a valuable role, despite their limitations, in a global world where health, biodiversity, and climate challenges are intricately linked across borders and worldwide.<\/p>\r\n

Beyond Pesticides believes WHO and IARC are important forces in fostering human and biosphere health. IARC has made decisions that are more protective than EPA. In addition to glyphosate, EPA last month dismissed<\/a> IARC\u2019s finding that the herbicide atrazine<\/a> is probably carcinogenic to humans. As with any governmental or quasi-governmental organization, advocates believe that there is certainly room for criticism of some of WHO\u2019s decisions, including those excessively influenced by regulated industries. At the same time, they affirm WHO\u2019s stated commitment \u201cto working with all countries in pursuit of its core mission and constitutional mandate: the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right for all people.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

You can take action and tell Congress to support and fund international organizations critical to the global health of humans and the biosphere, AND Tell Governors\/Lieutenant Governors to join (as well as thank them for joining) the Governors Public Health Alliance and to expand their support for international agencies that protect biodiversity and mitigate the climate crisis (IUCN, IPBES, and IPCC)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Tell Congress To Fund International Organizations Critical to Global Health and Governors To Step Up
\r\nBeyond Pesticides
\r\nhttps:\/\/secure.everyaction.com\/SPSdlOVXzUKk0yvhRNRtow2<\/a><\/p>\r\n

As Trump Steps Back from Global Health and Environmental Crises, Congress and States Asked To Step Up
\r\nBeyond Pesticides, February 2 2025
\r\nhttps:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2026\/02\/as-trump-steps-back-from-global-health-and-environment-crises-congress-and-states-asked-to-step-up\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
\r\nThe White House
\r\nJanuary 7, 2026
\r\nhttps:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2026\/01\/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-conventions-and-treaties-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Withdrawal from Wasteful, Ineffective, or Harmful International Organizations
\r\nPress Statement
\r\nMarco Rubio, Secretary of State
\r\nJanuary 7, 2026
\r\nhttps:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2026\/01\/withdrawal-from-wasteful-ineffective-or-harmful-international-organizations<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Trump Sinks to New Low by Announcing US Withdrawal from 66 International Organizations, Including UNFCCC and IPCC
\r\nUnion of Concerned Scientists
\r\nJanuary 8, 2026
\r\nhttps:\/\/www.ucs.org\/about\/news\/trump-sinks-new-low-announcing-us-withdrawal-66-international-organizations-including<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Governors Warn U.S. Withdrawal from World Health Organization Undermines Public Health Preparedness & Reaffirm Their Commitment to Protecting Health
\r\nGovernors Public Health Alliance
\r\nJanuary 22, 2026
\r\nhttps:\/\/www.govsforhealth.org\/news\/governors-warn-u-s-withdrawal-from-world-health-organization-undermines-public-health-preparedness-reaffirm-their-commitment-to-protecting-heath\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n

How Monsanto Captured the EPA\u2014And Twisted Science\u2014To Keep Glyphosate on the Market
\r\nValerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman
\r\nIn These Times, November 1, 2017
\r\nhttps:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/poisoned-science-epa-food-monsanto-glyphosate-milk-usda<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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