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note that in docs below doing risk assess, political, legal<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company</a><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style="">Hakluyt & Company is a British strategic intelligence and advisory firm, and since 2011 has been a trading name of the renamed company Holdingham Group Limited.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_note-comphouse-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>Pelorus Research is another trading activity of Holdingham Group, started in 2011, providing research to investment managers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> The company is headquartered in London and has subsidiary offices in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tokyo</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Singapore</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney" title="Sydney" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sydney</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_note-hakluyt-homepage-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a>Hakluyt avoids publicity, but is regarded as having a reputation for discretion and effectiveness among its client base.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a> Hakluyt was founded by former officials of the British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Intelligence_Service" title="Secret Intelligence Service" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Secret Intelligence Service</a> (MI6).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_note-wp-20120411-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a> It attracted controversy in 2001 when Hakluyt was alleged in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Sunday Times</a> to have employed staff to infiltrate environmental groups when working for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP" title="BP" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">BP</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell" title="Royal Dutch Shell" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Royal Dutch Shell</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a>Holdingham Group is chaired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Deighton,Baron_Deighton" title="Paul Deighton, Baron Deighton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paul Deighton</a>, and the other members of the board include managing director Paul Schreier, Robert Webb QC and Matthew Williams.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_note-holdingham-directors-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; 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</div><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#Corporate_governance" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Corporate governance</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Corporate governance</h2>Hakluyt's international advisory board comprises senior figures with backgrounds in business and government. It is chaired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_FitzGerald" title="Niall FitzGerald" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Niall FitzGerald</a>, KBE, former CEO and chairman of Unilever, and its current members are:<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_note-holdingham-advisory-board-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Professor Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_M.Anderson" title="Roy M. Anderson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Roy Anderson</a> — Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and former Rector, Imperial College London</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.S.Banga" title="M. S. Banga" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">M. S. Banga</a> — Partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and former Chairman and Managing Director, Hindustan Unilever</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Keith Craig — Former Managing Director, Holdingham Group Limited</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Amaury de Seze — Vice Chairman, Power Corporation of Canada</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Gent" title="Chris Gent" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christopher Gent</a> — Former Chairman, GlaxoSmithKline and former CEO, Vodafone</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dr Jurgen Grossmann — Founder and Shareholder, Georgsmarienhutte Holding GmbH</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Irene Lee — Chairman, Hysan Development Co. Limited</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Lobban" title="Iain Lobban" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iain Lobban</a> — Former Director, UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Minoru (Ben) Makihara, KBE — Former President and Chairman, Mitsubishi Corporation</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Manuel" title="Trevor Manuel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Trevor Manuel</a> — Former Minister of Finance, South Africa</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akio_Mimura" title="Akio Mimura" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Akio Mimura</a> — Chairman, Tokyo and Japan Chambers of Commerce and Industry</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubna_Olayan" title="Lubna Olayan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lubna Olayan</a> — CEO and Deputy Chairperson, Olayan Financing Company</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rose(businessman)" title="John Rose (businessman)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Rose</a> — Former CEO, Rolls-Royce</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Andreas Sohmen-Pao — Chairman, BW Group</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ambassador <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Susman" title="Louis Susman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Louis Susman</a> — Former US Ambassador to the UK</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratan_Tata" title="Ratan Tata" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ratan Tata</a>, GBE — Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons</li></ul>Australian High Commissioner to the UK <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Downer" title="Alexander Downer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alexander Downer</a> had been on the advisory board of the firm from 2008-2014.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a>
<h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">See also</h2><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%225%22 height=%2213%22%3E %3Ccircle cx=%222.5%22 cy=%229%22 r=%222.5%22 fill=%22%23222%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_intelligence_agency" title="Private intelligence agency" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Private intelligence agency</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hakluyt%26_Company&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-comphouse-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company#cite_ref-comphouse_1-0" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03481321/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22 width=%2212%22 height=%2212%22%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 stroke=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M1.5 4.518h5.982V10.5H1.5z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%2336c%22 d=%22M5.765 1H11v5.39L9.427 7.937l-1.31-1.31L5.393 9.35l-2.69-2.688 2.81-2.808L4.2 2.544z%22/%3E %3Cpath fill=%22%23fff%22 d=%22M9.995 2.004l.022 4.885L8.2 5.07 5.32 7.95 4.09 6.723l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z%22/%3E %3C/svg%3E"); padding-right: 13px;">"Holdingham Group Limited"</a>. 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...CONGRESSIONAL OUTREACH was only part of a multifaceted effort to control the backlash sparked by the IARC designation.In recent years, a <a href="https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">great deal</a> of new information has come to light around Monsanto’s work to conceal the potential health risks around glyphosate. Earlier this month, new documents <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/aug/07/monsanto-fusion-center-journalists-roundup-neil-young" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">revealed</a> that Monsanto operated a “fusion center” to discredit critics of the company, including former Reuters journalist Carey Gillam, who has written extensively about glyphosate. The operation even monitored and considered legal action again singer Neil Young, a critic of Monsanto.Le Monde, the French newspaper, published an award-winning investigation on the controversy, referring to the Monsanto-run campaign to discredit the IARC as an effort to “<a href="https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">intimidate</a>” the cancer research center.A separate cache of litigation files, released in May, <a href="https://usrtk.org/monsanto-roundup-trial-tacker/white-house-has-monsantos-back-on-pesticides-newly-revealed-document-says/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">revealed</a> that Monsanto also <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/2019/05/Monsanto-internal-emails-re-White-House-July-2018.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">contracted</a> with Hakluyt, a corporate intelligence firm, to keep close tabs on political elites in Washington. The company consulted with senior Trump and EPA officials, and confirmed that the administration would support Monsanto on glyphosate issues. “We have Monsanto’s back on pesticide regulation,” a domestic policy adviser in the White House told Hakluyt.=ref1<a href="https://usrtk.org/monsanto-roundup-trial-tacker/white-house-has-monsantos-back-on-pesticides-newly-revealed-document-says/">https://usrtk.org/monsanto-roundup-trial-tacker/white-house-has-monsantos-back-on-pesticides-newly-revealed-document-says/</a><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246);"><div class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <a href="https://usrtk.org/monsanto-roundup-trial-tacker/white-house-has-monsantos-back-on-pesticides-newly-revealed-document-says/" title="1:31 pm" rel="bookmark" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2019-05-07T13:31:23+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">May 7, 2019</time></a> by <a class="url fn n" href="https://usrtk.org/author/carey/" title="View all posts by Carey Gillam" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Carey Gillam</a></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Internal Monsanto records just filed in court show that a corporate intelligence group hired to “to take the temperature on current regulatory attitudes for glyphosate” reported that the White House could be counted on to defend the company’s Roundup herbicides.In a<a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/2019/05/Monsanto-internal-emails-re-White-House-July-2018.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"> report</a> attached to a July 2018 email to Monsanto global strategy official Todd Rands, the strategic intelligence and advisory firm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt%26_Company" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Hakluyt  </a>reported to Monsanto the following:“A domestic policy adviser at the White House said, for instance: ‘We have Monsanto’s back on pesticides regulation. We are prepared to go toe-to-toe on any disputes they may have with, for example, the EU. Monsanto need not fear any additional regulation from this administration.”In the email accompanying the report, Hakluyt’s Nick Banner told Rands the information related to issues both for the United States and for China. The report notes that “professional” staff has “sharp” disagreement with “political” staff on some areas, but that the concerns of some of the professional staffers would not get in the way.“We heard a unanimous view from senior levels of the EPA (and USDA) that glyphosate is not seen as carcinogenic, and that this is highly unlikely to change under this administration – whatever the level of disconnect between political and professional staffers.”The report said that a former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lawyer and a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) official confirmed that both agencies see the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classification of glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen as “flawed” and incomplete.“There is little doubt that the EPA supports the use of glyphosate,” the report says. It quotes a current EPA lawyer as saying: “We have made a determination regarding glyphosate and feel very confident of the facts around it. Other international bodies… have reached different conclusions, but in our view the data is just not clear and their decision is mistaken.”The report also suggests similarities between the Trump Administration’s support for glyphosate and its actions around a pesticide called chlorpyrifos that is the active ingredient in an insecticide made by Dow Chemical, now DowDupont. There is a large body of science showing that chlorpyrifos is very damaging to children’s brain development and that children are most often exposed through the food and water they consume. Chlorpyrifos was due to be banned from agricultural use in 2017 because of its dangers but the Trump administration postponed the ban at the request of Dow and continues to allow its use in food production.  The Hakluyt reports says:“The way the EPA under the Trump administration has handled Chlorpyrifos might be instructive in how it would handle new science or new developments related to glyphosate.”At the time the report was delivered to Monsanto last July, Monsanto had just been acquired by the German company Bayer AG and was in the midst of defending itself in the first Roundup cancer trial. That San Francisco case, brought by cancer victim Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, resulted in a unanimous jury verdict handed down in August ordering Monsanto to pay $289 million in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/10/monsanto-trial-cancer-dewayne-johnson-ruling" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">damages to Johnson.</a> The judge in the case later lowered the amount to $78 million. A second trial, also held in San Francisco in a separate case, resulted in an <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Monsanto-case-Bay-Area-man-awarded-80-million-13721676.php" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">$80.2 million verdict</a> for plaintiff Edwin Hardeman.A third trial is underway now in Oakland, California. Closing arguments are scheduled for tomorrow in that case, brought by a husband and wife who both have non-Hodgkin lymphoma they allege is due to their decades of using Roundup.The documents that include the Hakluyt report were filed in Alameda County Superior Court by lawyers representing the plaintiffs in the current case – Alva and Alberta Pilliod.The filing is <a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/2019/05/plaintiff-opposition-to-Monsanto-request-for-judicial-notice-of-EPA-2019-glyphosate-report-.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">in response</a> to Monsanto’s effort to tell jurors about a <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-04-30/epa-glyphosate-the-herbicide-in-roundup-does-not-cause-cancer" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">recently released</a> EPA glyphosate assessment in which the agency reaffirmed <a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-04/documents/glyphosate-pid-signed.pdf" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">its finding</a> that glyphosate does not cause cancer. The Pilliod lawyers say the Hakluyt communications with Monsanto speak “directly to the credibility of the 2019 EPA glyphosate evaluation, issued by an administration which holds itself out as favoring Monsanto’s business interests.”Widening rift reported between political and professional staffers in regulatory agenciesThe Hakluyt report to Monsanto also notes that increasingly professional staffers inside “most” federal agencies are feeling at odds with political staffers on issues such as pesticide regulation, climate science and other matters.“While this appears to be true of various agencies – Health and Human Services, Commerce, Education, Interior, the Food and Drug Administration, and so on- the EPA may be the leading example of this phenomenon.”The report quotes a prominent Washington DC law firm partner who has “extensive contacts at the EPA as saying:“In essence, the political leadership favors deregulation and dismisses the expert risk analysis. It is especially averse to theoretical risk analysis, for example, on the risks of glyphosate, about which a scientific consensus is yet to form… With regard to glyphosate, in particular, the differences between political and professional staff are sharp.” The professional staffers, those scientists and others who typically have been within an agency for many years through multiple administrations.Within the EPA, professional staffers are said to have “doubts about glyphosate,” but those doubts “are not shared by the EPA’s leadership.”The report also provides feedback on Monsanto’s reputation and provides a cautionary note to Bayer, which had just closed the purchase of Monsanto a few weeks before the July 2018 communications:“Developments in California on glyphosate are striking a chord with the public… The company regularly goes to ‘DEFCON 1’ on the slightest challenge from the environmental, academic or scientific community.”“Even within the EPA there is unease about your ‘scientific intransigence.'” According to the Hakluyt report, an official with the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs said: “There is growing unease in this office at what seems like scientific intransigence by Monsanto to give credibility to any evidence that doesn’t fit their view. We would agree with them that such evidence is non-conclusive, but that does not mean that it is without basis.”For more information and updates follow <a href="https://twitter.com/careygillam" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">@careygillam on Twitter.</a><div class="Raw-s14xcvr1-0 AXWJq" style="background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246); box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><footer class="entry-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 246);"><div class="entry-meta-category-tag" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="categories-icon glyphicon glyphicon-th-list" title="Posted in" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; top: 1px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;"> <a href="https://usrtk.org/category/monsanto-roundup-trial-tacker/" rel="category tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Monsanto Roundup Trial Tracker</a>   <a href="https://usrtk.org/tag/cancer/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">cancer</a>, <a href="https://usrtk.org/tag/epa/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">EPA</a>, <a href="https://usrtk.org/tag/glyphosate/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">glyphosate</a>, <a href="https://usrtk.org/tag/monsanto/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Monsanto</a>, <a href="https://usrtk.org/tag/roundup/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">RoundUp</a>, <a href="https://usrtk.org/tag/science/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">science</a>, <a href="https://usrtk.org/tag/trial/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">trial</a>, <a href="https://usrtk.org/tag/white-house/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">White House</a></div></footer>ref 2 emaols docs incl hakl<a href="https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/2019/05/Monsanto-internal-emails-re-White-House-July-2018.pdf">https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/bsk-pdf-manager/2019/05/Monsanto-internal-emails-re-White-House-July-2018.pdf</a>EMAILS SHOW MONSANTO ORCHESTRATED GOP EFFORT TO INTIMIDATE CANCER RESEARCHERS

Lee FangAugust 23 2019, 3:00 a.m.IN 2015, the World Health Organization’s cancer research arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classified glyphosate, an active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, as a “probable carcinogen,” setting off a global debate about the world’s most popular weedkiller.
Over the last four years, Republicans in Congress have excoriated and pushed to defund the IARC, casting their defense of the chemical as a quest on behalf of small American farmers. Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla., has written that his outrage over the cancer research is on behalf of the “farmers and food manufacturers who rely on traditional farming methods to produce the food that fuels America — and the world.”
But according to a recent trove of documents, the ongoing political assault on the IARC has been scripted in part by Monsanto, the St. Louis-based chemical and seed conglomerate that produces Roundup and Roundup-resistant crops.
Roundup has been cash cow for the company since the 1970s, fueling billions of dollars in annual profits. Its use has skyrocketed in recent decades since the company developed genetically modified corn and other crops that are resistant to it; it is now the world’s leading herbicide.
A growing number of individuals say that Monsanto failed to warn consumers of the dangers of using Roundup and had marketed the chemical spray as harmless to humans, while internally recommending that its own employees use gloves and protective gear. Critics say that the Roundup formula used in the U.S. also contains a surfactant that makes the herbicide far more toxic than the variation of the spray sold in the European market.
Monsanto, which merged with German multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer AG last year, is facing as many as 11,000 cases relating to glyphosate. Last year, Dewayne Johnson, a former groundskeeper now dying of cancer, was the first to win his jury trial in San Francisco state court against Monsanto, alleging that years of using Roundup contributed to his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Johnson was awarded $289 million by a jury, though a judge later reduced the amount to $78 million. Another plaintiff, Edwin Hardeman, also alleged that he spent decades spraying the glyphosate-based weedkiller with little to no protective gear and developed the same blood cancer, won a similar case in federal court this year.
[Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson after hearing the verdict in his case against Monsanto at the Superior Court of California in San Francisco on Aug. 10, 2018. Photo: Josh Edelson, Pool/AP]The newly disclosed files, released by a plaintiff’s law firm, Baum Hedlund, include company emails, documents, and deposition transcripts showing that Monsanto lawyers and lobbyists guided lawmakers, coordinating efforts to question the IARC’s credibility and slash U.S. support for the international body.
The company has denied claims that its products cause cancer, and Monsanto lawyers have declared that Environmental Protection Agency’s designation of glyphosate as safe should clear the company of any legal liability. In a recent marketing campaign, Bayer touted its friendly cooperation with regulators as a sign that the public should have nothing to fear from its products.
But the documents also suggest that the firm has used its influence with lawmakers to antagonize regulators, applying pressure and investigative threats to shape the science used to research glyphosate and other controversial chemical compounds, as part of a larger campaign to silence critics and discredit the IARC.
IN JUNE 2015, Michael Dykes, then serving as Monsanto’s vice president of government affairs, laid out the company’s strategy for “managing the IARC issue,” following the cancer research center’s determination that March.
The company, he wrote in an email, had dispatched its team of lobbyists to brief “key staff at EPA, USTR, USDA, and the State Department as well as members of Congress” to raise concerns with the IARC’s scientific process, and with how the decision could impact agriculture as well as international trade. Lobbyists also met with an official at the Department of Health and Human Services; they saw the agency’s support as key “to secure a WHO clarification.”
Later in the year, Dykes updated the Monsanto team with plans to push back against the IARC, including the possible placement of advertisements — in the form of letters from third-party groups — in Capitol Hill newspapers, as well as preparation to use a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing as a venue to get the EPA to reaffirm support for glyphosate. “We will make sure Committee members ask EPA the glyphosate safety question,” Dykes wrote.
[Roundup weed killing products on May 14, 2019. Photo Illustration: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe following year, FTI Government Affairs, one of several consulting firms guiding Monsanto’s political response to the IARC decision, assisted GOP lawmakers with an effort to investigate U.S. support for the IARC.
In one email sent by Todd Rands, a former Monsanto attorney working with FTI, sent a draft of a letter ostensibly written by Rep. Rob Aderholt, R-Ala., a senior lawmaker on the House Appropriations Committee, addressed to Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes for Health. NIH is the government agency responsible for most federal public health research and is the largest funder to the IARC. The letter, in fact, had been written by FTI consultants, along with Rands’s edits, according to his deposition testimony.
The FTI-written letter declared that glyphosate “does not cause cancer,” accused the IARC of peddling “bunk science,” and threatened a reassessment of the NIH budget to ensure that the agency is “committed to only funding organizations that produce information and conclusions based on sound science, robust processes, and credible methodology.”
During his deposition, Rands said that he believed it appropriate for Monsanto to draft a letter on behalf of a lawmaker to NIH, calling such ghostwriting a “common practice in Washington.”
It’s not clear what Aderholt’s office did with the FTI-authored letter. Aderholt’s office did not respond to a request for comment from The Intercept. On June 2, 2016, Aderholt sent a letter to NIH to request a briefing on the IARC’s designation of glyphosate as a probable carcinogen and “the standards that NIH places on research funded by the U.S. taxpayers,” a letter that mirrored many of the demands in the FTI letter, though it used different language.
More GOP letters and demands for investigation over NIH’s funding for IARC followed. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, then-chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., Chaffetz’s successor as Oversight chair, and Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, then-chair of the House Science Committee, all called for inquiries into IARC funding and the designation of glyphosate as a carcinogen.
The Monsanto lobbyists closely conferred with the committees as they honed in on the IARC’s funding. Drew Feeley, an attorney for the GOP staff of the House Oversight Committee, emailed an FTI consultant to explain that his office was working to attach a line to a government budget bill designed “to apply to IARC” in order to slash its funding over the glyphosate issue. “Thanks again for coordinating,” Feeley wrote to the Monsanto consultant. Feeley, notably, is now serving as an attorney with the Council on Environmental Quality, the White House office that oversees environmental policy.
“We expect the House OGR investigation about IARC to expand as they move into the new administration,” wrote Rands, in an update to Monsanto colleagues.
Last year, under Smith, the House Science Committee devoted an entire committee hearing into questioning the IARC, with a focus on its conduct around glyphosate. Smith subsequently sent more letters to cancer researchers in Norway, demanding they “correct the flaws in IARC.” The House Appropriations Committee followed up by cutting $2 million in funding to the IARC, a symbolic move to distance the U.S. from the international body, which relies on a budget of around $40 million from a range of member countries.
THE CONGRESSIONAL OUTREACH was only part of a multifaceted effort to control the backlash sparked by the IARC designation.
In recent years, a great deal of new information has come to light around Monsanto’s work to conceal the potential health risks around glyphosate. Earlier this month, new documents revealed that Monsanto operated a “fusion center” to discredit critics of the company, including former Reuters journalist Carey Gillam, who has written extensively about glyphosate. The operation even monitored and considered legal action again singer Neil Young, a critic of Monsanto.
Le Monde, the French newspaper, published an award-winning investigation on the controversy, referring to the Monsanto-run campaign to discredit the IARC as an effort to “intimidate” the cancer research center.
A separate cache of litigation files, released in May, revealed that Monsanto also contracted with Hakluyt, a corporate intelligence firm, to keep close tabs on political elites in Washington. The company consulted with senior Trump and EPA officials, and confirmed that the administration would support Monsanto on glyphosate issues. “We have Monsanto’s back on pesticide regulation,” a domestic policy adviser in the White House told Hakluyt.
[pixA building on the campus of Monsanto headquarters in St. Louis on May 23, 2016. Photo: Michael B. Thomas/AFP/Getty ImagesThe last year has exposed other cloak-and-dagger tactics. The company was criticized for ghostwriting scientific studies on the safety of glyphosate, which were presented as independent research. At the San Francisco civil trial over glyphosate, an FTI consultant working for Monsanto was caught posing as a journalist working for the BBC and another British outlet.
And in 2017, one of the most stunning disclosures revealed that a senior EPA staffer, Jess Rowland, had quietly tipped Monsanto off to the fact that federal agencies had sought to reevaluate the safety of glyphosate, boasting to the company that he could “kill” federal investigations into glyphosate. Shortly before a crucial European Union vote on glyphosate products, the EPA suddenly released a report declaring the safety of the product. The document was later taken down because it had not yet been completed. One Monsanto official relayed to a colleague that Rowland had told him, “If I can kill this I should get a medal,” in regards to the glyphosate review conducted by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a department of Health and Human Services.
After leaving the EPA, Rowland went to work in the private sector, consulting for chemical companies.
There’s also a revolving door between lawmakers supporting Monsanto and professionals working on behalf of the company. Shortly after retiring from Congress this year, following his investigation of the IARC, Lamar Smith took a job at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, a lobbying firm that represents Bayer-Monsanto’s interests in Washington.</div></div></div>