Overview
Lobbying Costs
275,000€
Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75 Fte (1)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
U.S. Right to Know (USRTK)
EU Transparency Register
834954628547-08 First registered on 04 Oct 2017
Goals / Remit
U.S. Right to Know is a nonprofit consumer education organization focused on research and communication regarding the American food and agricultural systems. The organization obtain data and information largely through public record requests and investigative reporting.
Main EU files targeted
We are primarily interested in the process and politics re-authorization of glyphosate
Address
Head Office
4096 Piedmont Ave
#963
Oakland 94611-5221
UNITED STATES -
People
Total lobbyists declared
1
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
0.75
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Ms Carey Gillam (co-director)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Gary Ruskin (co-director)
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Categories
Category
III - Non-governmental organisations
Subcategory
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
USRTK co-director Carey Gillam is a board member of Justice Pesticides https://www.justicepesticides.org/en/
Le site justicepesticides.org est édité par l’association Loi 1901 “Justice Pesticides”
Adresse : 81, rue de Monceau, 75017 Paris, FranceMember organisations
https://usrtk.org/
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
275,000€
Other financial info
Largest donors are:
Organic Consumers Association
Dr. Bronner’s Family Foundation
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
CrossFit Foundation
Panta Rhea Foundation
Westreich Foundation
Community Foundation of Western North Carolina (Little Acorn Fund – M):
Pollinis -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None
ACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
U.S. Right to Know maintains a webpage called The Monsanto Papers https://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer-case-key-documents-analysis/ that provides public access to court documents in the Roundup cancer litigation filed against Monsanto. Co-director Carey Gillam has also written a book about Monsanto and glyphosate/Roundup titled Whitewash - The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science, and Gillam reports and writes frequently on agrichemical issues, including glyphosate-related matters.
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
None declared