{"id":3098,"date":"2017-07-25T20:01:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T03:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2017-07-25T20:01:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T03:01:57","slug":"the-epas-inspector-general-is-probing-whether-an-agency-staffer-colluded-with-monsanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/the-epas-inspector-general-is-probing-whether-an-agency-staffer-colluded-with-monsanto\/","title":{"rendered":"The EPA\u2019s Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/epa-inspector-general-probing-collusion-with-monsanto_us_59372108e4b0aba888b99dca\" target=\"_blank\">The investigation comes in response to documents released in a court case over whether the herbicide glyphosate causes cancer.<\/a><br \/>\nHuffington Post<br \/>\nJune 6, 2017<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The inspector general for the Environmental Protection Agency is initiating a probe into possible collusion between a former high-ranking EPA official and Monsanto, the maker of the herbicide glyphosate, according to a letter the IG sent to a lawmaker last Friday that HuffPost has obtained. [&#8230;] \u201cAs you are aware, there is considerable public interest regarding allegations of such collusion,\u201d wrote Inspector General Arthur A. Elkins Jr. in his response to Lieu, dated May 31. \u201cAs a result, I have asked the EPA OIG Office of Investigations to conduct an inquiry into several agency review-related matters.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investigation comes in response to documents released in a court case over whether the herbicide glyphosate causes cancer. Huffington Post June 6, 2017 The inspector general for the Environmental Protection Agency is initiating a probe into possible collusion between a former high-ranking EPA official and Monsanto, the maker of the herbicide glyphosate, according to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/the-epas-inspector-general-is-probing-whether-an-agency-staffer-colluded-with-monsanto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The EPA\u2019s Inspector General Is Probing Whether An Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-liability","category-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sandiegopersonalinjuryattorney.pro\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}