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IT\u2019S TIME TO PUT THE SWAMP ON NOTICE<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Tell your U.S. Representatives to reject immunity for the pesticide industry. Pesticide-harm immunity provisions\u2014Sections 10205, 10206, and 10207\u2014must be removed from the 2026 Farm Bill.<\/strong>
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<\/strong>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 \u201cGT\u201d 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\u2019re not buying it. Corporations should NEVER be given immunity from accountability for the harms their poison products may cause.

Use our form to send an email to your Representative.<\/strong> Edit the suggested text in your own voice or send it as is.

BACKGROUND<\/strong>
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<\/strong>Bayer-Monsanto was brazenly shouting it from the rooftops in 2025. <\/strong>Amid an increase in Roundup\/cancer case filings, Bayer CEO Bill Anderson insisted, \u201cWe are confident in our objective to significantly contain the litigation risk by the end of 2026,\u201d stressing that the company is confident in its strategy.

It couldn\u2019t 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 \u201cBayer-Monsanto Protection Act on Steroids,\u201d granting the company and other toxic pesticide pushers federal legal protection.

And in December 2025, the White House made clear which side it\u2019s on: The poison pushers.<\/strong>
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<\/strong>The White House, through the Department of Justice (DOJ) Solicitor General\u2019s 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 \u201cfailure to warn\u201d about cancer risks. The high court agreed to hear Bayer\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2014and its shares have plummeted. Bayer\u2019s 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\u2019t alone. China-owned Syngenta also faces over 6,400 lawsuits alleging that its paraquat-based herbicide, Gramoxone, caused plaintiffs\u2019 Parkinson\u2019s disease. At the end of January 2026, The New Lede reported<\/a>, \u201cOn 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\u2019s disease, paraquat-maker Syngenta reached a settlement with the retired landscaper who blamed the company for his diagnosis with the incurable brain disease.\u201d

Bayer\u2019s 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.<\/strong> If passed, these bills would protect Bayer (and all pesticide corporations) against claims it \u201cfailed to warn\u201d 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\u2019s (EPA) weak regulations. This means that Bayer\u2019s 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<\/strong><\/a>. 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\u2019s lobbying efforts have resulted in the introduction of immunity bills in 11 states during 2025 legislative sessions\u2014Florida, 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.
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<\/strong>The state-level bills are not moving fast enough to save this evil empire. <\/strong>In desperation, Bayer is pulling out all the stops at every level of government to save itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n