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From: Laurel Hopwood <[log in to unmask]>
To: CONS-SPST-BIOTECH-FORUM <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wed, Oct 28, 2015 4:57 pm
Subject: Lawsuit against EPA for approval of "Enlist Duo"


CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY ROCKS
laurel hopwood, chair, sierra club genetic
engineering action
team

http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/4103/lawsuit-challenging-epa-approval-of-harmful-herbicide-advances
edited
press release

Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice filed their opening
brief in 
their ongoing legal challenge to the EPA’s approval of the herbicide

Enlist Duo for use on genetically engineered corn and soybeans.

The groups
argue that in its approval of Enlist Duo, a combination of 
the herbicides
2,4-D and glyphosate, the agency disregarded negative 
impacts on sensitive
species, including nearly two hundred species 
protected under the Endangered
Species Act (ESA), from the increased use 
of the toxic cocktail on crops
genetically engineered to withstand its 
application.

2,4-D , a component of
the Vietnam-era defoliant Agent Orange, has been 
linked to serious illnesses
like Parkinson’s disease, non-Hodgkin’s 
lymphoma and reproductive problems.
Glyphosate was recently classified 
as a “probable human carcinogen” by the
World Health Organization’s 
International Agency for Research on
Cancer.

EPA approved Enlist Duo to address the epidemic of
glyphosate-resistant 
super weeds that now infest tens of millions of acres of
U.S. farmland 
as a result of overuse of glyphosate—the active ingredient in
Monsanto’s 
Roundup on crops genetically engineered to resist glyphosate’s
effects.

Dow Chemical has introduced 2,4-D resistant crops to as a quick fix
to 
the problem, allowing farmers to douse their fields with both 2,4-D and

glyphosate to kill these herbicide resistant weeds.

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