“Inside the agency, it is rule number one: Any information likely to embarrass a major industry must never see the light of day.”
From Jonathan Latham interviewed by Lorna Garano on Truthout.org
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In-Depth Interview: Dr. Jonathan Latham Exposes the Game EPA Plays with Industries it Regulates
Based on the newly-released Poison Papers, Dr. Jonathan Latham of Independent Science News slams the EPA and its predecessors. Latham is also executive director of the Bioscience Resource Project, which has released a huge trove of documents from industries and regulators, the Poison Papers. Visit Independent Science News here.
We open with a discussion of recent moves by Trump’s EPA under Scott Pruitt, which just announced very narrow enforcement of 2016’s updates of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. Latham is dismissive, saying the EPA “already had its agenda for not doing anything”, and that EPA “has never done its job”.
This leads to his description of the Poison Papers, which date to 1920 and show that pattern of weak regulation, unchanged by the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. We walk through searches for “Agent Orange” and “glyphosate”, and he comments on the range of documents in the collection.
Latham offers a sweeping indictment of EPA and regulation of toxic chemicals in general, describing a game where the industries are always outraged at “over-reach” and EPA enables the industries while appearing to regulate them. He sees little difference between Democrats who champion science as the basis of regulation and Republicans who promote corporate profits over sensible regulation.
In-Depth Interview: Dr. Jonathan Latham Exposes the Game EPA Plays with Industries it Regulates
Long before Scott Pruitt, EPA colluded with industry
Published in Salon Magazine, 19th May, 2018.
“the evidence is overwhelming that permethrin has a marked tumor-inducing or carcinogenic activity which is expressed in many different forms.” Adrian Gross Senior EPA Scientist
This article by Jonathan Latham, director of the Project, focuses on the pesticide permethrin and how EPA accepted fraudulent research to allow it on the market. It asks the question, why would they do that?
How Monsanto Captured the EPA (And Twisted Science) To Keep Glyphosate on the Market
On November 1, 2017, In These Times published “How Monsanto Captured the EPA (And Twisted Science) To Keep Glyphosate on the Market”. The article was written by Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman, with illustrations by Jean-Luc Bonifay.
“Since 1973, Monsanto has cited dubious science, like tests on the uteri of male mice, and the EPA has let much of it slide.” For example, when EPA scientists expressed concerns about the carcinogenicity of glyphosate revealed by a mouse study, “their interpretation was subsequently reversed by EPA upper management and advisory boards, apparently under pressure from Monsanto.” The collusion continues to this day.
Read the original story at:
http://inthesetimes.com/features/monsanto_epa_glyphosate_roundup_investigation.html
The OrganicView interviews Dr. Jonathan Latham about The Poison Papers Project
The Bioscience Resource Project and the Center for Media and Democracy launched “The Poison Papers Project” which reveals decades of collusion between industry and regulators over toxic pesticides and other hazardous chemicals. In this segment of The Organic View from August 2017, Dr. Latham talks to host, June Stoyer about this massive cover-up and how it began.
Listen to the interview at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBEf1WH31HQ