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Despite knowing PCBs were dangerous, Monsanto kept profiting for decades

September 26, 2018 By Jonathan Latham, PhD

Spokane is now suing, and the ‘Poison Papers’ show why

https://www.inlander.com/spokane/despite-knowing-pcbs-were-dangerous-monsanto-kept-profiting-for-decades-spokane-is-now-suing-and-the-poison-papers-show-why/Content?oid=12730378

Filed Under: Poison Papers News Tagged With: Carol Van Strum, PCBs, Poison Papers, Spokane

New ‘Poison Papers’ Leak: EPA Knew About Many Dangerous Toxins, But Kept Quiet

September 10, 2018 By Allison Wilson

A new leak in the series of documents known as the “poison papers,” which were provided by whistleblower William Sanjour, show that unless regulatory bodies such as the EPA have real political backing, they will not act in the public interest. We speak to Jonathan Latham of the Bioscience Resource Project.

Watch the full interview which aired on the Real News Network on September 10, 2018:

https://therealnews.com/stories/new-poison-papers-leak-epa-knew-about-many-dangerous-toxins-but-kept-quiet

 

Filed Under: Poison Papers News Tagged With: Dr. Jonathan Latham, EPA, Hazardous waste, Poison Papers, Real News Network, regulation, toxic chemicals, William Sanjour

Daylong UCSF Chemical Industry Documents Library Event Includes: “Failing for Forty Years: What the Poison Papers Tell Us About the EPA and How to Reform It”

August 29, 2018 By Allison Wilson

September 13, 2018, the UCSF Environmental Health Initiative, in collaboration with the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and the UCSF Industry Documents Library, will host a day-long series on the science and stories contained within three new collections of chemical industry documents being added to the library. The goal is to expand public awareness about the contents of the collections and their vast potential in informing scientific research, public policy, and decision-making.

Lecture:

“Failing for Forty Years: What the Poison Papers Tell Us About the EPA and How to Reform It”

Thursday September 13 from 10:00am-11:00am
Location:
Byers Auditorium
UCSF Mission Bay Campus
600 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94143
United States

Jonathan Latham, Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and donor of the Poison Papers to the UCSF Chemical Industry Documents library. Dr. Latham will talk about the importance of the 20,000-document collection and how they expose problems with both the internal culture of the EPA and its legal framework that are often fraught with industry influences that prevent precautionary decision-making, even when the science clearly points to danger.

Brunch to follow in Genentech Hall Atrium from 11-12.


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Panel Discussion:

“Unsealing the Science: What the Public can Learn from Internal Chemical Industry Documents,”

Thursday, September 13 at 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Location:
533 Parnassus Avenue
Cole Hall Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94143
United States

A panel discussion with the donors of three new UCSF chemical industry documents collections – the Glyphosate and Agrochemical Collection (Gary Ruskin, US Right to Know), the Poison Papers (Jonathan Latham, Bioscience Resource Project), and the Benzene Collection (Raphael Metzger, principal of the Metzger Law Group) will explore 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, will introduce the panel and explain how the documents have been used to inform litigation, documentaries, and public policy decisions. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Tracey Woodruff, Professor and Director of the UCSF 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.

Panel discussion from 3:30-5:30 at Cole Hall Auditorium.

To attend, please click here to reserve your free ticket.

Filed Under: Poison Papers News Tagged With: Environmental Health Initiative, EPA, Event, Poison Papers, reform, UCSF, UCSF Industry Documents Library

“Poison Papers” and Major Monsanto Document Release Exposes Toxicity and Collusion

August 12, 2018 By Allison Wilson

Published in The Maui Independent on August 2, 2017 by Jon Wood house and Jonathan Greenberg

Historic Disclosures Prove That Safety of FDA and EPA-Approved Chemicals Were Based on Tobacco Industry-like Collusion Promoting Demonstrably Faked Science.

More than 100,000 pages of documents exposing how the chemical industry and government regulators knew about the extraordinary toxicity of many chemical products, yet worked together to conceal this information from the public and the press, were made publicly available last week through a remarkable project called the Poison Papers.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  explained, “Monsanto has been spinning its lethal yarn to everybody for years and suborning various perjuries from regulators and scientists who have all been lying in concert to American farmers, landscapers and consumers. These new revelations are commiserate with the documents that brought down big tobacco.”

Read the full article at: https://mauiindependent.org/poison-papers-major-monsanto-document-release-exposes-toxicity-collusion/

Filed Under: Poison Papers News Tagged With: chemical industry, collusion, dioxin, documents, EPA, Fake Science, FDA, herbicides, IBT, Jr, Monsanto, pesticides, Poison Papers, Robert F. Kennedy, Tobacco Industry, Toxicity

The OrganicView interviews Dr. Jonathan Latham about The Poison Papers Project

November 14, 2017 By Allison Wilson

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

Filed Under: Poison Papers News Tagged With: chemical industry, collusion, Dr. Jonathan Latham, IBT, Interview, Monsanto, Poison Papers, regulators, TheOrganicView, utube

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