EPA says glyphosate doesn’t represent a cancer risk

See Trump Administration Backs Bayer in Weedkiller Court Fight: EPA, Justice Department file brief supporting company’s arguments that Roundup weedkiller didn’t require cancer warning by Jacob Bunge and Timothy Puko of The WSJ. Excerpts:

"Lawyers for both government agencies argued the verdict should be overturned because it would have been illegal for Bayer to print cancer-risk warnings on Roundup labels. They said Congress granted the EPA the sole authority over safety labels on chemical products, and the agency wouldn’t have approved a cancer warning for Roundup."

The government’s filing reiterates the agency’s long-held view that glyphosate doesn’t represent a cancer risk, most recently upheld in a December 2017 EPA review.

“EPA has a longstanding position—It’s not just this administration which determined that this pesticide does not cause cancer,” said Jeffrey Clark, the assistant attorney general of the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the Justice Department in an interview. “EPA should be in control. Congress set it up that way.”"