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EPA’s Scandalous Policies vs. States’ Responsibility

Cassandra
Anderson
NaturalSociety
March 1, 2012

The EPA pesticide and herbicide approval program
requires industry manufacturer applicants to fund the studies that are
submitted.  This means that if companies like Monsanto or Dow Chemical have
a new product, they are required under EPA rules to pay for all of the safety
testing when they apply for approval of a new weed or bug killer.

In the absence of independent testing and oversight, there appears to be a
wide open door for potential fraud as manufacturer applicants could cherry pick
their studies and simply use ones that show favorable results.

Templates were devised by to make industry manufacturer applicants’ study
data uniform in a 2002 NAFTA deal struck between the EPA and
Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PRMA).  Templates are used
so that the EPA and PRMA can approve of applicants’ poisons more quickly and
with fewer resources.  The agencies hope to review approved pesticides only
every 15 years.

You can find the profile of these testing templates on the EPA
website.

States Carry the Primary
Responsibility

On the EPA’s website, they say that after a pesticide is registered
(approved) by the EPA, states may have more strict laws regarding poisons and it
is up to the manufacturer to comply with state laws in order to register their
product in the state.

And here’s the kicker: the EPA says, “Ultimately, states have the primary
responsibility (called primacy) for pesticides used within state border”.
This can be interpreted to mean that the EPA has absolved itself of
accountability and that the states are liable (responsible) for regulating pesticides
for safety.

This clause makes it clear that state power supersedes the federal EPA’s
rubber stamp approval process for pesticides and herbicides.  States should
ensure the safety of citizens from harmful chemicals.

EPA’s Scandalous Abuse of Taxpayer
Money

The EPA employs more than 17,000 people and has enjoyed a budget of around
$7.5 billion in years prior to the implementation of Obama’s Stimulus bill that
enhanced executive agencies’ scope and power.  The EPA’s budget ballooned
above $10 billion in 2010 and 2011.  What did taxpayers get for the extra
billions spent?  Not much when it comes to protecting the very people who
fund the EPA.

Here’s an example:

Don Huber has warned that glyphosate
herbicide (the most common brand is Monsanto’s Roundup Ready product) can cause
infertility and miscarriages in farm animals, in addition to disease in plants.
A Spanish study found that glyphosate
is polluting groundwater.  And numerous other studies point to
extremely negative effects from glyphosate.

But the EPA is dragging its feet in taking action in banning
glyphosate herbicide and are only conducting a study to be completed
by 2015.  The worst part about the EPA’s “study” is that it will rely
heavily on industry manufacturer data instead of doing any independent
research.  In fact, chemical poison giants like Monsanto, Dow Chemical,
Syngenta and BASF formed a 19-member task force to generate the data that the
EPA is seeking.

Conclusion

It appears that the EPA’s approval process is skewed to favor
industry.  The EPA is slow to respond when industry products
cause harm.

This is a big deal because the next generation of GMOs that already has
preliminary approval from the USDA, will be sprayed with Dow Chemical’s 2,4-D
herbicide (half of the recipe of Agent Orange that is contaminated with
dioxin).

The EPA approved 2,4-D herbicide years ago and it is commonly used on lawns
and golf courses.  The EPA says that dioxin, at its current levels, does
not pose a serious health risk.  However, if 2,4-D products become popular,
and American farms are doused in the poison, we can look forward to increased
levels.  The EPA says on its own website that current levels of dioxin are
“uncomfortably” close to levels that will cause problems.  Dioxin causes
cancer, birth defects, organ damage and many other diseases.

EPA approval does not preempt more stringent
state laws and is supported by court decisions.

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T Bagg says:

March
7, 2012 at 11:49 pm

I liked how the EPA was so key in Macondo oil blow out. first they tell BP
“No Corexit!” then BP’s says “Bugger off!” What is the point of being in the
EPA if you dont protect the environment? Do they just sit there and collect
checks?

Hell in a hand basket.

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Yoda
says:

March
7, 2012 at 7:51 pm

Kudos Ms. Anderson: Outstanding expose!

Shoud pea green President Obama get a second term we will all be starving
and freezing in the dark.

A communist revolution is coming to your neighborhood.

http://www.magnifiedview.com/2011/10/18/occupying-wall-street-style-uprisings-and-the-arab-spring-revolutions/

The time to prepar5e is before an emergency – not during.

Right on Ms. Ander4son – WRITE ON!

Cordially, [email-masked]

P.S. “May you live in interesting times.” Ancient Chinese curse.

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Yoda says:

March
7, 2012 at 7:46 pm

Kudos Ms. Anderson: Outstanding EPA expose!

Pea green President Obama will have us all starving and freezing in the
dark if he get’s a second term.

A Communist revolut5ion coming to your neighborhood.

http://www.magnifiedview.com/2011/10/18/occupying-wall-street-style-uprisings-and-the-arab-spring-revolutions/

The time to prepare is before an emergency – not during.

Right on Ms. Anderson – WRITE ON! Cordially, [email-masked]

P.S. “May you live in interesting times” Ancient Chinese curse.

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Avanti says:

March
7, 2012 at 4:16 am

I like what Thomas Jefferson said: “If people let the government decide
what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in
as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”

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Ginger Ferrer says:

March
6, 2012 at 3:13 am

Again and again the questions arise unanswered regarding how and why
Monsanto and other similar companies have been allowed to become the “Hitler”,
“Dr. Mengele” mentality of these concerns. With seemingly no accountability
whatsoever at and from the state and federal levels. Agencies that appear to
exist only on paper, but not in action or reaction to the heinousness of these
long termed condoned unconstitutional and crimimal crimes against humanity,
animals and the earth itself. What is Washington and all of these so called
home land security, and other federal authorities doing to put a stop to these
premeditated acts of so many crimes?

It is almost like the Constitution and the rights of all human life is all
but over in this allegedly free country.

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