The following is a statement from Amy van Saun, senior attorney at CFS and lead counsel in the case:

In its junio 2022 decision, a monumental victory for farmworkers and the environment, the Court held significant parts of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ’s glyphosate “interim” registration decision unlawful, including striking down its cancer safety determination for farmworkers and others exposed and ordering EPA to comply with the Endangered Species Act before approving glyphosate. The Court sent the current process back to the agency and ordered EPA to complete its work and make a new decision by an octubre 1, 2022 deadline.

(La decisión se denominó erróneamente "provisional" a pesar de que finalizó partes importantes de la decisión sobre el glifosato de la EPA, incluida su determinación de seguridad contra el cáncer y las evaluaciones de ecotoxicidad).

Instead, EPA today told the Court that, rather than complying with the Court’s directive, it was simply taking its ball and going home: EPA scrapped the entire glyphosate registration it had previously approved, adding the rest to the parts the Court had already held unlawful and set aside. EPA said it was instead going to focus only on another future glyphosate decision and loop all these outstanding questions—with regards to cancer, harm to endangered species and the environment more broadly, glyphosate drift harm to other farmer’s crops, and more—into that decision, which EPA “anticipates” will be completed in 2026.

On the one hand, today is another major victory: EPA has now conceded defeat for all of the broken interim registration. On the other hand, today’s announcement is also an irresponsible cop-out to try and get around the Court’s deadline to fix its legal violations. And in the meantime, EPA is letting glyphosate be sold and sprayed, despite outstanding significant questions about its health and environmental safety. Instead, EPA should cancel glyphosate products until and unless it reassesses their risks and ensures their safety lawfully. It cannot: Due to cancer concerns, Monsanto/Bayer has already agreed to stop selling Roundup for consumers by 2023. EPA should now cancel its other uses as well.

“Démonos cuenta de que el arco del universo moral es largo, pero se inclina hacia la justicia”. - Martin Luther King hijo. 

Puede sentir que es inútil seguir hablando para eliminar el glifosato u otras toxinas de nuestros alimentos y medio ambiente, pero le aseguramos que no lo es. Las acciones de ciudadanos como usted han sido la base de estas demandas. 

Este anuncio no significa que ninguna acción que nosotros o usted haya tomado haya sido un fracaso.

El único fracaso sería si nos detuviéramos.

Nuestro compromiso con la salud y la libertad no se ve alterado por ninguna circunstancia, ninguna corrupción en el mundo.

Nuestro amor por nuestros hijos, familia y comunidad nunca termina.

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