EPA Urged to Put Public Health Over Monsanto Profits by Banning Cancer-Linked Glyphosate
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"This dangerous herbicide causes serious health risks, including cancer, and threatens our environment."
by: Jake Johnson
Demonstrators walk with placards during a march for agroecology and civil resistance against U.S. seed and pesticide maker Monsanto on May 20, 2017 in Bordeaux, southwestern France. (Photo: Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images)
As the Environmental Protection Agency moves to greenlight the continued use of glyphosate in the United States for another 15 years, a coalition of environmental and consumer advocacy groups on Wednesday delivered nearly 150,000 petitions urging the agency to ban the cancer-linked herbicide.
The coalition's call comes ahead of the July 5 deadline for public comment on the EPA's interim registration review of glypho...