EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk

Linda Birnbaum, former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP), and Tracey Woodruff, ​​former EPA Senior Scientist and Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at UCSF, were quoted in Inside Climate News about EPA’s use of an external review firm with ties to chemical and manufacturing industries to classify the pesticide 1,3-D.