They’re approving pesticides. We’re fighting back.

 They’re approving pesticides. We’re fighting back.

• Sylvia Wu, Center for Food Safety 

  From:appeals@centerforfoodsafety.org

  To:Mark M Giese

  Thu, Aug 13 2026 at 1:19 PM

  Dear Mark, The Trump Administration came into office promising to "Make America Healthy Again."  Inside the Environmental Protection Agency's pesticide office, it is business as usual. The EPA has now approved fluoxapiprolin, epyrifenacil, trifludimoxazin, and expanded the use of chlormequat chloride, despite evidence linking these chemicals to cancer, endocrine disruption, and serious risks to pollinators, wildlife, and endangered species.  Time and again, the agency dismisses warnings from independent scientists, ignores evidence from its own records, and sides with the pesticide industry.  This is exactly why Center for Food Safety exists.  The greatest threat to our food system is often not the decisions that make the evening news. It is the quiet approvals. The buried scientific findings. The internal decisions made behind closed doors. The technical determinations that shape what ends up on our farms, in our food, and ultimately in our bodies.  These actions happen every single day.  Someone has to be watching.  Fluoxapiprolin and epyrifenacil produced tumors in laboratory animals, yet the EPA declared both "not likely" to cause cancer. The agency expanded the use of chlormequat chloride despite growing evidence that it disrupts reproductive hormones and threatens fertility. It also approved trifludimoxazin even though its own analyses found it is likely to severely harm threatened and endangered fish and other wildlife.  This pattern is painfully familiar.  When the EPA claimed glyphosate was unlikely to cause cancer, Center for Food Safety took the agency to court. We proved the EPA had violated its own Cancer Guidelines, and a federal court threw out its human health assessment. We have forced the EPA to withdraw dangerous pesticide approvals before, and we will continue holding the agency accountable whenever it ignores the law.  These latest approvals will not go unchecked.  The pesticide industry has armies of lobbyists protecting its interests inside Washington.  The public has us.  Your support makes it possible for Center for Food Safety to investigate hidden approvals, uncover flawed science, challenge unlawful decisions in court, and serve as an independent watchdog over one of the most powerful regulatory agencies in our government.  The fight to protect our food, our families, and our planet does not end with an election. It requires constant vigilance.  We refuse to accept a future where public health is sacrificed for corporate profits or where endangered species are treated as collateral damage. We will fight to ensure these approvals are fully scrutinized, that the EPA follows the law, and that our public health and the planet are protected.  Please make a generous gift today to help power that fight.  Sylvia Wu Co-Executive Director Center for Food Safety