The EPA's Ties to Monsanto Could Be Disastrous for the US

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35985-the-epa-s-ties-to-
monsanto-could-be-disastrous-for-the-us

The EPA's Cancer Assessment Review Committee issued the "Final Report" on glyphosate on April 29, 2016, and 13 members of the review committee had signed their name to the report's findings that glyphosate is "not likely to be carcinogenic to humans."

The findings should raise eyebrows to begin with, because they directly contradict a report from the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, which found last year that glyphosate is a "probable carcinogen." But what's really caused a stir from environmentalists and conservatives alike, and why Lamar Smith has started overseeing the matter, is that the EPA pulled the report after just three days, and claimed that the report was published "inadvertently."

Smith wrote to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on May 4, 2016, that "the subsequent backtracking on [this report's] finality raises questions about the agency's motivation in providing a fair assessment of glyphosate." But Lamar Smith was a few days late to the party condemning the EPA's research, because the Center for Biological Diversity had already issued a press release condemning the EPA finding as "disappointing, but not terribly surprising [because] industry has been manipulating this research for years."