- This week, the House Appropriations Committee removed a provision from its spending bill that would have given pesticide manufacturers legal immunity from lawsuits claiming their products harmed people. This is a HUGE win for farmers, rural communities, and children!
- The company Syngenta had to pay $187.5 MILLION for links between the pesticide paraquat and Parkinson’s disease. And Monsanto has paid billions to settle lawsuits linking its weedkiller Roundup with non-Hodkin's lymphoma.
- Chemical companies have been pushing for shields to protect them from being legally responsible for the harm pesticides are wreaking on our health. No one should be above the law. If this industry is too dangerous to operate without being legally shielded, it probably shouldn’t be operating at allJan 6, 2026 21:05
- We applaud the members of the Appropriations Committee who fought to strip the ‘cancer gag’ language from the bill, and we remain vigilant in other efforts that seek to undermine our rights in favor of pesticide company profits. foe.org/news/pestici...
