Attorneys for a California couple who claim Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer gave them both cancer tried to convince an Oakland state court jury Thursday that the agrochemical company engaged in decades of fraud to hide the fact that the herbicide is carcinogenic…..See: https://www.courthousenews.com/roundup-trial-monsanto-used-fake-data-to-win-over-regulators/
Trump’s EPA Is Undermining New Law to Regulate Chemicals
The Poison Papers featured in this article by Daniel Ross on the new TSCA
Critical Reviews in Toxicology’s Correction of Glyphosate Review Only Tells Half the Story
The academic journal Critical Reviews in Toxicology issued corrections yesterday for articles that were published in a 2016 supplemental issue dedicated to reviewing the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer. Yet that it’s corrections are radically incomplete, claims Law firm Baum Hedlund.
Lawyers: CRT Correction of Glyphosate Review Only Tells Half the Story
Failing for Forty Years: What the Poison Papers Tell Us About the EPA and How to Reform It
In this lecture Dr. Jonathan Latham, Director of the Bioscience Resource Project, talks about the importance of the 20,000-document Poison Papers collection and how it exposes problems with both the internal culture of the EPA and its legal framework that prevent precautionary decision-making, even when the science clearly points to danger. The documents known as the Poison Papers were collected over a period of 40 years by Carol Van Strum, Diane Hebert, Eric Coppolino, and Peter von Stackelberg, who served as custodians of the documents, gathering, storing, scanning, and distributing them. The Park Foundation, The Bioscience Resource Project, Center for Media and Democracy, and the late Rosalind Peterson helped fund this endeavor.
https://lecture.ucsf.edu/ets/Play/0b4ef9a0f5af41fdb982aa4a1f0753f21d
Unsealing the Science: What the Public can Learn from Internal Chemical Industry Documents
A panel discussion with the people who brought the three new chemical industry documents collections to the UCSF library explored what the documents mean for public health and the perils they faced in making these documents public. Professor Stanton Glantz, who began the library with the first collection of internal tobacco industry documents and explained how the documents have been used to inform litigation, documentaries and public policy decisions. University Librarian and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Information Management Chris Shaffer gave an overview of the Industry Documents Library and introduced the panel. Panelists included Dr. Jonathan Latham, Director of the Bioscience Resource Project, and Gary Ruskin, Co-founder and Co-Director of U.S. Right to Know. The panel was moderated by Dr. Tracey Woodruff, Professor and Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and Co-Director of the UCSF Environmental Health Initiative, which has supported the development of the Chemical Industry Documents library.
https://lecture.ucsf.edu/ets/Play/342d5d84275441b2b97aa9f641d0dca51d