Legislator Questions EPA’s Ability To Assess Glyphosate Based On ‘Sound Science’

(October 27, 2016, 1:33 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology wrote a letter to the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Oct. 25 stating that the committee has obtained information that “appears to contradict” the administrator’s responses to questions the committee posed regarding the EPA’s oversight of the herbicide glyphosate.  In the letter, the chairman indicates that in light of the contradictions, the EPA’s decision to delay official review of glyphosate does not “instill confidence that EPA will fairly assess glyphosate based on sound science.”...

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