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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, August 18, 2025)\u00a0 With pesticide manufacturers pushing to stop cancer victims (and others suffering adverse effects) from suing them under longstanding \u201dfailure to warn law,\u201c U.S. Senator Cory Booker<\/a>\u00a0(D-NJ) is proposing to uphold this unequivocal right to protection. Senator Booker has introduced the\u00a0Pesticide Injury Accountability Act<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(S. 2324)\u00a0to protect the rights of farmers and consumers to hold pesticide manufacturers responsible for the harm caused by their toxic products. This effort comes in the wake of congressional and state legislative attacks on \u201cfailure-to-warn<\/a>\u201d liability claims that are taking place in response to extraordinary jury verdicts against Bayer\/Monsanto for harm caused by glyphosate weed killer products like Roundup.\u1d40\u1d39<\/p>\n

📣 Beyond Pesticides, with allied organizations across the U.S., is asking the public to “Tell your U.S. Senator to co-sponsor S. 2324, the\u00a0Pesticide Injury Accountability Act<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.” This bill will amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act of 1972<\/em>\u00a0(FIFRA) to create a federal right of action for anyone who is harmed by a toxic pesticide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite growing\u00a0peer-reviewed scientific evidence\u00a0<\/a>linking widely used pesticides to a host of health harms, including cancers, birth defects, endocrine disruption, Parkinson’s disease, and infertility, the chemical industry and its allies in elective\u00a0office are pushing to deny victims access to the courts. Led by its lobbyists in state legislatures and in Congress, the pesticide industry is seeking legal immunity\u2014a liability shield\u2014for failing to disclose its products’ hazards.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Need for Court Action in the Face of EPA Dismantling<\/strong>\u202f\u00a0
\nWith the massive dismantling of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) programs by the current administration, Congress has been seeking, through appropriations bill provisions, to limit court oversight, which in many cases serves as a backstop for public health and environmental protections. Provisions in the House appropriations bill would, in the future,\u00a0prohibit cases like those filed by victims of glyphosate (Roundup\u1d40\u1d39), who have\u202fwon large jury verdicts<\/a>\u202fand compensation. The language removes the incentive for chemical manufacturers, under threat of accountability for compensatory and punitive damages, to develop safer products or remove products altogether. Therefore, it slows the critically necessary shift to less- and non-toxic land and building management practices to protect health and the environment.\u202fLegislative history added to the bill in the committee will do little to ensure\u202fa fully functioning EPA and court redress.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

Immunity from lawsuits on chemical companies’ failure to warn about their products’ hazards.\u202f\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWith Bayer\/Monsanto leading the charge, the chemical industry has successfully lobbied for a weak federal pesticide law and then tried to hide behind the law when sued for damages, telling the courts that their products are in compliance with pesticide registration standards and therefore they are not liable for harm. Juries have ruled that chemical manufacturers failed to provide adequate warning through their product labeling, given the independent peer-reviewed science, including what the company knew or should have known, and a clinical assessment of the harm caused to the plaintiff.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, the Interior and Environment Subcommittee\u202fin the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee voted to support\u00a0a bill<\/a>\u00a0on July 15 that includes language that provides total pesticide immunity language, blocking farmers and consumers from suing chemical manufacturers when they fail to disclose the harm that their products cause and block states from providing information on product harm beyond EPA-approved language. (See Section 453.) The Subcommittee’s bill was then incorporated into the full Appropriations Committee bill on July 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chemical companies\u2014many foreign-owned\u2014are seeking liability shields because they know the harm their products have already caused. Syngenta, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned company ChemChina, reached a $187.5 million settlement in 2021 for paraquat-related Parkinson’s disease claims. Monsanto, now owned by Germany’s Bayer, has paid billions of dollars to settle lawsuits linking Roundup\u1d40\u1d39 (glyphosate) to non-Hodgkin lymphoma. If legislation shields companies from liability for its failure to warn, it would leave farmers, farmworkers, consumers, and other injured individuals without recourse for the harms caused by these toxic substances.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Therefore, Senator Booker proposes, \u201cRather than providing a liability shield so that foreign corporations are allowed to poison the American people, Congress should instead pass the\u00a0Pesticide Injury Accountability Act<\/em>\u00a0to ensure that these chemical companies can be held accountable in federal court for the harm caused by their toxic products.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Letter to U.S. Senators
\n<\/strong>I am writing to ask you to cosponsor U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) bill, the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act (S. 2324), to protect the rights of farmers and consumers by holding pesticide manufacturers responsible for the harm caused by their toxic products. This bill has been introduced in the wake of congressional and state legislative attacks on \u201cfailure-to-warn\u201d liability claims that are taking place in response to extraordinary jury verdicts against Bayer\/Monsanto for harm caused by glyphosate weed killer products like Roundup.\u1d40\u1d39<\/p>\n

The bill will amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act of 1972 (FIFRA) to create a federal right of action for anyone who is harmed by a toxic pesticide.<\/p>\n

Despite growing peer-reviewed scientific evidence linking widely used pesticides to a host of health harms, including cancers, birth defects, endocrine disruption, Parkinson\u2019s disease, and infertility, a coordinated effort is being led by pesticide manufacturers in state legislatures and in Congress seeking legal immunity\u2014a liability shield\u2014for these big corporations.<\/p>\n

With the massive dismantling of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) programs by the current administration, Congress has been seeking, through appropriations bill provisions, to limit court oversight, which in many cases serves as a backstop for public health and environmental protections. Provisions in the House appropriations bill would, in the future, prohibit cases like those filed by victims of glyphosate (Roundup\u1d40\u1d39), who have\u202fwon large jury verdicts\u202fand compensation. The language removes the incentive for chemical manufacturers, under threat of accountability for compensatory and punitive damages, to develop safer products or remove products altogether, slowing the critically necessary shift to less- and non-toxic land and building management practices to protect health and the environment.\u202fLegislative history added to the bill in the committee will do little to ensure\u202fa fully functioning EPA and court redress.\u202f<\/p>\n

As Bayer\/Monsanto leads the charge, the chemical industry successfully lobbied for a weak federal pesticide law, FIFRA, and then tried to hide behind the law when sued for damages, telling the courts that their products are in compliance with pesticide registration standards and therefore they are not liable for harm. Juries have ruled that chemical manufacturers failed to provide adequate warning through their product labeling, given the independent peer-reviewed science, including what the company knew or should have known, and a clinical assessment of the harm caused to the plaintiff.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, the Interior and Environment Subcommittee\u202fin the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee voted July 22 to support a bill that includes language (Sec. 453) providing total pesticide immunity language, blocking farmers and consumers from suing chemical manufacturers when they fail to disclose the harm that their products cause and blocking states from providing information on product harm beyond EPA-approved language.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chemical companies\u2014many foreign-owned\u2014seek liability shields because they know the harm their products have already caused. Syngenta, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned company ChemChina, reached a $187.5 million settlement in 2021 for paraquat-related Parkinson\u2019s disease claims. Monsanto, now owned by Germany\u2019s Bayer, has paid billions of dollars to settle lawsuits linking RoundupTM (glyphosate) to non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma. If legislation shields companies from liability, it would leave farmers, farmworkers, and other injured individuals without meaningful recourse for the harms caused by these toxic substances.<\/p>\n

Please co-sponsor the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act (S. 2324).<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

Letter to U.S. Senator Cory Booker [sponsor]:<\/strong>\u00a0
\nI am writing to thank you for sponsoring the <\/span>Pesticide Injury Accountability Act<\/span><\/em> (S. 2324), to protect the rights of farmers and consumers by holding pesticide manufacturers responsible for the harm caused by their toxic products. This bill has been introduced in the wake of congressional and state legislative attacks on \u201cfailure-to-warn\u201d liability claims that are taking place in response to extraordinary jury verdicts against Bayer\/Monsanto for harm caused by glyphosate weed killer products like <\/span>Roundup.\u1d40\u1d39<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The bill will amend the <\/span>Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act of 1972<\/span><\/em> (FIFRA) to create a federal right of action for anyone who is harmed by a toxic pesticide.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite growing peer-reviewed scientific evidence linking widely used pesticides to a host of health harms, including cancers, birth defects, endocrine disruption, Parkinson\u2019s disease, and infertility, a coordinated effort is being led by pesticide manufacturers in state legislatures and in Congress seeking legal immunity\u2014a liability shield\u2014for these big corporations.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With the massive dismantling of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) programs by the current administration, Congress has been seeking, through appropriations bill provisions, to limit court oversight, which in many cases serves as a backstop for public health and environmental protections. Provisions in the House appropriations bill would, in the future, prohibit cases like those filed by victims of glyphosate (<\/span>Roundup\u1d40\u1d39<\/span>), who have\u202fwon large jury verdicts\u202fand compensation. The language removes the incentive for chemical manufacturers, under threat of accountability for compensatory and punitive damages, to develop safer products or remove products altogether, slowing the critically necessary shift to less- and non-toxic land and building management practices to protect health and the environment.\u202fLegislative history added to the bill in the committee will do little to ensure\u202fa fully functioning EPA and court redress.\u202f\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As Bayer\/Monsanto leads the charge, the chemical industry successfully lobbied for a weak federal pesticide law, <\/span>FIFRA<\/span>, and then tried to hide behind the law when sued for damages, telling the courts that their products are in compliance with pesticide registration standards and therefore they are not liable for harm. Juries have ruled that chemical manufacturers failed to provide adequate warning through their product labeling, given the independent peer-reviewed science, including what the company knew or should have known, and a clinical assessment of the harm caused to the plaintiff.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the Interior and Environment Subcommittee\u202fin the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee voted July 22 to support a bill that includes language (Sec. 453) providing total pesticide immunity language, blocking farmers and consumers from suing chemical manufacturers when they fail to disclose the harm that their products cause and blocking states from providing information on product harm beyond EPA-approved language.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chemical companies\u2014many foreign-owned\u2014seek liability shields because they know the harm their products have already caused. Syngenta, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned company ChemChina, reached a $187.5 million settlement in 2021 for paraquat-related Parkinson\u2019s disease claims. Monsanto, now owned by Germany\u2019s Bayer, has paid billions of dollars to settle lawsuits linking <\/span>Roundup \u1d40\u1d39<\/span> (glyphosate) to non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma. If legislation shields companies from liability, it would leave farmers, farmworkers, and other injured individuals without meaningful recourse for the harms caused by these toxic substances.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Again, thank you for your leadership in sponsoring the <\/span>Pesticide Injury Accountability Act<\/span><\/em> (S. 2324) to protect the rights of farmers and consumers.<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Beyond Pesticides, August 18, 2025)\u00a0 With pesticide manufacturers pushing to stop cancer victims (and others suffering adverse effects) from suing them under longstanding \u201dfailure to warn law,\u201c U.S. Senator Cory Booker\u00a0(D-NJ) is proposing to uphold this unequivocal right to protection. Senator Booker has introduced the\u00a0Pesticide Injury Accountability Act\u00a0(S. 2324)\u00a0to protect the rights of farmers and consumers to hold pesticide manufacturers responsible for the harm caused by their toxic products. This effort comes in the wake of congressional and state legislative attacks on \u201cfailure-to-warn\u201d liability claims that are taking place in response to extraordinary jury verdicts against Bayer\/Monsanto for harm caused by glyphosate weed killer products like Roundup.\u1d40\u1d39 📣 Beyond Pesticides, with allied organizations across the U.S., is asking the public to “Tell your U.S. Senator to co-sponsor S. 2324, the\u00a0Pesticide Injury Accountability Act.” This bill will amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act of 1972\u00a0(FIFRA) to create a federal right of action for anyone who is harmed by a toxic pesticide.\u00a0 Despite growing\u00a0peer-reviewed scientific evidence\u00a0linking widely used pesticides to a host of health harms, including cancers, birth defects, endocrine disruption, Parkinson’s disease, and infertility, the chemical industry and its allies in elective\u00a0office are pushing to deny victims access to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1832,158,196,531,574,354,1986,1830,1831,41,494,243,68,10,360,166,276],"tags":[2114,1171,2254,688,605,1356,2257,784,470,1455,1179,1351,2255,2256,1176,2258,1634,927,1910,786,787],"class_list":["post-39328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-and-rodenticide-act-fifra","category-bayer","category-cancer","category-chem-china","category-congress","category-environmental-protection-agency-epa","category-failure-to-warn","category-federal-insecticide","category-fungicide","category-glyphosate","category-herbicides","category-label-claims","category-monsanto","category-pesticide-regulation","category-preemption","category-syngenta","category-take-action","tag-accountability","tag-bayer","tag-cancer-victims","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-epa","tag-failure-to-warn","tag-federal","tag-fifra","tag-glyphosate","tag-harm","tag-industry-interference","tag-monsanto","tag-pesticide-injury-accountability-act","tag-pesticide-label","tag-pesticide-regulation","tag-right-to-action","tag-right-to-sue","tag-roundup","tag-senator-cory-booker","tag-take-action","tag-u-s-senate"],"yoast_head":"\nPublic Fighting Manufacturers\u2019 Push To Deny Cancer Victims the Right to Sue under Longstanding Law - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senator Booker has introduced the\u00a0Pesticide Injury Accountability Act\u00a0(S. 2324)\u00a0to protect the rights of farmers and consumers to hold pesticide manufacturers responsible for the harm caused by their toxic products. 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