Another Monsanto Biotech Booster Joins Bush Administration

Former Monsanto Executive Says She Won't Make Decisions
Affecting Firm (Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, 5 April 2001)
http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm#

President George W. Bush has nominated Linda J. Fisher, a former
Monsanto Co. official, to be second-in-command at the Environmental
Protection Agency. A lawyer, she was Monsanto's representative in
Washington from 1995 to 2000. * Fisher coordinated the company's
strategy to blunt resistance to genetically modified food. Linda J. Fisher,
the ex-Monsanto Co. executive named to the Environmental Protection
Agency's No. 2 job, says she won't deal with EPA matters that directly
affect Monsanto. Besides recusing herself from actions involving Monsanto,
Fisher promised to work closely with EPA lawyers so that her role in
biotech rules and other issues in which Monsanto has a stake doesn't
raise red flags. "I take the reputation of the agency and the integrity
of its decisions very seriously. So I'm going to step out of anything
that comes close to a problem," she said in an interview. An EPA
official said Wednesday that Fisher would have to sign a formal
agreement that could spell out issues she must avoid and require
divestiture of Monsanto stock.

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