Three mid-level EPA officials altered scientific documents to support their 2018 decision to keep the weed killer dicamba in use, reported the office of inspector general at EPA on Monday.
Published: Monday, May 24, 2021
A tractor spraying pesticide. Photo credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
A tractor spraying pesticide. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
Trump EPA officials purposely veered from the agency s principles of scientific integrity to approve continued use of the weedkiller dicamba on genetically modified crops, the agency has admitted.
In a written response to an internal watchdog report, issued today, the agency said it bypassed normal procedures in approving dicamba in 2018 because past senior leadership consciously chose to advance a policy outcome in a manner inconsistent with the Scientific Integrity Policy.
At issue is EPA s decision that year to extend the registration of three dicamba products in certain uses despite its reputation for drifting into neighboring fields and killing crops that aren t genetically modified to withstand it. Several million acres of soybeans and other crops and plants have been damaged this way, according to groups fighting its
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Amy L. Babcock, MPH, DABT®, ERT, MRSB, Joins Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. and The Acta Group
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Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) and The Acta Group (Acta®) are pleased to announce that Amy L. Babcock, MPH, DABT®, ERT, MRSB has joined our firms as Senior Scientist. WASHINGTON (PRWEB) May 19, 2021 Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) and The Acta Group (Acta®) are pleased to announce that Amy L. Babcock, MPH, DABT®, ERT, MRSB has joined our firms as Senior Scientist. Ms. Babcock has 15-plus years of experience leading qualitative and quantitative human health risk assessments in industry and agency roles, most recently as Supervisory Toxicologist and Branch Chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Ms. Babcock will offer clients technical excellence a
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