{"id":7183,"date":"2025-08-09T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/?page_id=7183"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:24:00","slug":"s2324-pesticide-injury-accountability-act","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/take-action\/s2324-pesticide-injury-accountability-act\/","title":{"rendered":"S2324 Pesticide Injury Accountability Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-transform:none\">Tell Your U.S. Senators to Protect Your Right to Sue Pesticide Corporations<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-transform:none\">Pass S.2324, the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act to Hold Pesticide Manufacturers Accountable<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"mai-columns alignwide has-xl-margin-top\"><div class=\"mai-columns-wrap has-columns\" style=\"--column-gap:var(--spacing-xl);--row-gap:var(--spacing-xl);--align-columns:start;--align-columns-vertical:start;\">\n<div class=\"mai-column is-column\" style=\"--flex-xs:0 0 100%;--columns-sm:1\/2;--flex-sm:0 0 var(--flex-basis);--columns-md:1\/2;--flex-md:0 0 var(--flex-basis);--columns-lg:1\/2;--flex-lg:0 0 var(--flex-basis);--justify-content:start;\">\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;69d8e6dfd47ae&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"69d8e6dfd47ae\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/S2324_Pesticide_Injury_Accountability_Act-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/S2324_Pesticide_Injury_Accountability_Act-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/S2324_Pesticide_Injury_Accountability_Act-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/S2324_Pesticide_Injury_Accountability_Act-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/S2324_Pesticide_Injury_Accountability_Act.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\taria-label=\"Enlarge\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While we\u2019ve been battling legislation that would give pesticide companies immunity from accountability when their toxins cause harm \u2013 sponsored by corrupt politicians at both the state and federal levels \u2013 Senator Cory Booker has sponsored a federal bill that would do the opposite. The bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-bill\/2324\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>S.2324<\/strong><\/a><strong>, the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act<\/strong>, would ensure that pesticide manufacturers can be held responsible for the harm caused by their toxic products. Specifically, this bill would 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\n\n\n<p>If these largely foreign-owned pesticide companies are successful in their quest for immunity, their liability shield would leave farmers, farmworkers, and other injured individuals without meaningful recourse for the harms caused by these toxic substances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chemical companies are seeking liability shields because they know how harmful their products are. 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. Syngenta has nearly 6,000 additional Parkinson\u2019s disease lawsuits filed against it. Monsanto, now owned by Germany\u2019s Bayer, has paid billions of dollars to settle lawsuits linking Roundup (glyphosate) to non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma. Bayer has faced over 170,000 cancer lawsuits \u2013 approximately 66,000 have not been settled and there will be more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>There is no time to lose.<\/strong> Pesticide companies are lobbying hard to pass standalone immunity bills at the state level. The governors of North Carolina and Georgia have already signed immunity bills into law, stripping NC and GA residents of their rights. And Kentucky\u2019s state legislature passed an immunity bill, and voted to override Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear&#8217;s veto of that bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.2324 would assure that people in these states, and all states across the nation, would still be able to sue pesticide corporations in federal court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sign the petition to your U.S. Senators to urge them to protect our constitutional rights and co-sponsor and pass S.2324, the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"mai-column is-column\" style=\"--flex-xs:0 0 100%;--columns-sm:1\/2;--flex-sm:0 0 var(--flex-basis);--columns-md:1\/2;--flex-md:0 0 var(--flex-basis);--columns-lg:1\/2;--flex-lg:0 0 var(--flex-basis);--justify-content:start;\">\n\n<div\n      class=\"muster-embed muster-embed-action\"\n      data-action-center-id=\"fbeb5d9b-d803-453f-87e0-4f6810b51a2c\"\n      data-domain=\"https:\/\/mstr.app\"\n      data-height=\"1000\"\n      data-width=\"100%\"\n      data-height-full=\"true\"\n      data-css=\"\"\n      id=\"muster-action-embed-fbeb5d9b-d803-453f-87e0-4f6810b51a2c\"\n    >\n      <script\n        src=\"https:\/\/widgets.muster.com\/v2\/action-center-20250715.js\"\n        widget-id=\"muster-action-embed-fbeb5d9b-d803-453f-87e0-4f6810b51a2c\"\n      ><\/script>\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tell Your U.S. Senators to Protect Your Right to Sue Pesticide Corporations Pass S.2324, the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act to Hold Pesticide Manufacturers Accountable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"1":"page","2":"type-page","5":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7458,"href":"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7183\/revisions\/7458"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxinfreeusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}