EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Monday that he will not influence the agency’s ongoing review of glyphosate’s cancer-causing potential, as Make America Healthy Again activists target EPA over pro-pesticide policies like its reapproval of a controversial herbicide.
EPA in 2020 found that glyphosate does not present “any reasonable risk to man or the environment,” but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2022 determined that EPA both needed to reevaluate whether the pesticide causes cancer and its effects on endangered species. The new review is expected to be released later this year.
Speaking to an audience of agriculture industry representatives at the 2026 Agri-Pulse summit in Washington, Zeldin said the review would be conducted by “dedicated career scientists” — and will not be determined by his politics.
“We’re going through the review right now. I haven’t told the Office of Chemical Safety what I want their review to show. That’s not how it works,” Zeldin said.
