IT’S TIME TO PUT THE SWAMP ON NOTICE
Tell your U.S. Representatives to reject immunity for the pesticide industry. Pesticide-harm immunity provisions—Sections 10205, 10206, and 10207—must be removed from the 2026 Farm Bill.
In the latest affront to our intelligence, the pesticide industry, once again is relying on bought politicians to do its bidding. Using ridiculous fearmongering claims that true warning labels on pesticides would cause food prices to sharply increase and potential food shortages, Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA) is using a well known, predictable tactic from the industry playbook. We call B.S.
We the People are onto you and we’re not buying it. Corporations should NEVER be given immunity from accountability for the harms their poison products may cause.
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BACKGROUND
Bayer-Monsanto was brazenly shouting it from the rooftops in 2025. Amid an increase in Roundup/cancer case filings, Bayer CEO Bill Anderson insisted, “We are confident in our objective to significantly contain the litigation risk by the end of 2026,” stressing that the company is confident in its strategy.
It couldn’t be clearer. Bayer feels it has enough politicians in its back pocket to guarantee that when the time is right and no one is looking, Congress will pass the “Bayer-Monsanto Protection Act on Steroids,” granting the company and other toxic pesticide pushers federal legal protection.
And in December 2025, the White House made clear which side it’s on: The poison pushers.
The White House, through the Department of Justice (DOJ) Solicitor General’s office, has urged the Supreme Court in a written brief, to take up an appeal by Bayer-Monsanto (maker of Roundup), arguing that federal law should shield pesticide companies from state-level lawsuits based on “failure to warn” about cancer risks. The high court agreed to hear Bayer’s appeal in March 2026. If the justices rule in favor of Bayer, it would effectively be granting broad immunity by preventing stronger state label warnings. Such a move is supported by industry, prioritizing corporate interests over public health and weakening accountability for harmful products like glyphosate-based herbicides.
Bayer-Monsanto, headquartered in Germany, has been hardest hit by pesticide litigation. Tens of thousands of lawsuits have been filed by people who developed cancer, primarily non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, after exposure to its glyphosate-based Roundup. The company has paid out roughly $11 billion to settle 100,000+ cases, with over 61,000 cases still pending. The litigation has cost the company dearly—and its shares have plummeted. Bayer’s market capitalization is now less than half of what it paid to acquire Monsanto in 2018. And its legal woes are not over by a long shot.
Bayer isn’t alone. China-owned Syngenta also faces over 6,400 lawsuits alleging that its paraquat-based herbicide, Gramoxone, caused plaintiffs’ Parkinson’s disease. At the end of January 2026, The New Lede reported, “On the eve of the opening of what would have been a bellwether U.S. trial over allegations that a widely used weed killer causes Parkinson’s disease, paraquat-maker Syngenta reached a settlement with the retired landscaper who blamed the company for his diagnosis with the incurable brain disease.”
Bayer’s strategy since 2024 has been to pass laws, state by state, that take away the ability of farmers, landscapers, and other individuals to sue if they get sick. If passed, these bills would protect Bayer (and all pesticide corporations) against claims it “failed to warn” people about the potential health harms of Roundup, or any other pesticide produced, as long as the product is labeled in accordance with Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) weak regulations. This means that Bayer’s cancer victims would no longer be given their day in court and no future lawsuits would be allowed in any state that has passed these bills.
The revolving door between industry and regulatory agencies swings wide and often, and corruption at the EPA is well documented. Pesticide regulations and product label requirements are not protective of human or environmental health, offering only the appearance of safety while allowing chemical makers to keep selling dangerous toxins.
Bayer’s lobbying efforts have resulted in the introduction of immunity bills in 11 states during 2025 legislative sessions—Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wyoming. The bills were written by industry attorneys and sponsored by Republican politicians.
These Monsanto Protection Acts have passed in North Dakota and Georgia, signed into law by Governors Kelly Armstrong and Brian Kemp, respectively. Our supporters and other activists were able to stop the bills in all other states during the 2025 legislative sessions. But Bayer is continuing to lobby for state immunity in 2026.
The state-level bills are not moving fast enough to save this evil empire. In desperation, Bayer is pulling out all the stops at every level of government to save itself.
- Bayer petitioned the EPA to modify pesticide labeling regulations that would effectively give it, and the entire pesticide industry, nation-wide immunity.
- Bayer submitted a petition to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) arguing that the court should hear its case to resolve a split among lower courts on whether federal labeling laws preempt state labeling laws, betting that the Republican supermajority of justices will side with it. On December 1, 2025, Trump’s DOJ Solicitor General Dean John Sauer recommended that SCOTUS hear Bayer’s appeal and filed a brief supporting Bayer. SCOTUS agreed and has scheduled the appeal hearing for March 2026. If SCOTUS rules in Bayer’s favor, it could bring all Roundup-cancer and Paraquat-Parkinson’s disease lawsuits to a screeching halt.
- Meanwhile, Bayer and Big Ag lobbying groups like CropLife America and the American Farm Bureau Federation are using their political influence in Washington D.C. to ramp up campaigns for a legal shield. House Republicans added Section 453, a provision giving the pesticide industry immunity from pesticide-harm lawsuits, to the Appropriations Bill Fiscal Year 2026 (federal spending bill). It was later removed after massive public outcry.
- Republicans’ latest effort to play the game of whack-a-mole added three provisions into the 2026 Federal Farm Bill that would provide the pesticide industry with permission to poison without accountability.
House Agriculture Committee Chair, Representative Glenn ”GT” Thompson (R‑PA), having taken over $600,000 in 2023/24 from the industry (2025/26 numbers have not yet been released), is pushing his fellow lawmakers to do Bayer’s bidding and pass this draft of the 2026 Farm Bill.
We’ve seen it all before. In the spring of 2013, Monsanto’s minions worked hard to pass the first Monsanto Protection Act, which would have allowed Monsanto and others to sell genetically modified seeds even when courts blocked them from doing so.
The bill became law. But a groundswell of people across the U.S., including many of you, contacted their Congresspeople demanding the law be rescinded. By the fall of 2013, we succeeded in stopping that Monsanto Protection Act.
More recently, due to public outcry, Section 453 in the federal funding bill mentioned above was removed before it went for a vote in January 2026.
People Power can and does work.
These evil corporations don’t care who they harm. Maximizing profit is all they care about. We must step up, as many times as needed, to stop the insanity. Bayer-Monsanto cannot win.
Put your U.S. Representative on notice. Let them know that you are watching their every vote. Should legislators choose to grant these corrupt corporations immunity against America’s will, we will make sure that We the People hold them to account—drain the swamp and VOTE THEM OUT.
