Adding a cancer warning label to the popular weedkiller Roundup would violate federal law, EPA and Justice Department attorneys said in a Supreme Court brief.
It’s the latest — but far from the first — instance of the Trump administration stepping in to defend use of the contentious herbicide and the latest development in a saga that has captured widespread attention, thanks in part to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his base of “Make America Healthy Again” supporters.
The Trump administration filed another amicus brief Monday siding with pesticide giant Bayer in its fight to get the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s decision linking Roundup’s main ingredient, glyphosate, to non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The brief reiterates arguments Solicitor General D. John Sauer made in December that federal pesticides law preempts state laws on labeling requirements. This time the push came with support from EPA General Counsel Sean Donahue and other career agency attorneys.
