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The Bayer-Monsanto Protection Act on Steroids Has Landed at the EPA.
Only You Can Stop It.
Protestors at the Iowa state capitol building in Des Moines on February 10, 2025, rallying against a bill shielding pesticide manufacturers from legal liability. (AP Photo/Hannah Fingerhut)
The EPA has extended the deadline for public comments from the original deadline of February 20 to March 24.
RED ALERT! Bayer-Monsanto is back with an assault on our rights as Americans. We must stop them and their allies.
Bayer has instructed Attorneys General from 11 states to shield the corporation from lawsuits by people who have been harmed by its pesticides. State AGs from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, and South Dakota are complying with Bayer’s wishes.
This is part of a multi-pronged attack, in concert with certain state legislators, to take away our legal right to sue Bayer, or any other pesticide corporation, if we get sick from exposure to its toxic chemicals.
On January 21, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accepted a petition from the AGs of the 11 states, requesting that the Agency initiate rulemaking to amend existing pesticide regulations “such that any state labeling requirements inconsistent with EPA's findings and conclusions from its human health risk assessment on human health effects, such as a pesticide's likelihood to cause cancer, birth defects, or reproductive harm, constitute misbranding.”
In other words, the 11 state AGs want to outlaw any state from forcing pesticide manufacturers to correctly label their products as carcinogenic, or the cause of other health harms, when the EPA does not recognize those harms.
For instance, the EPA relies only on secret, industry-funded studies and does not consider Roundup weedkiller a carcinogen despite the peer-reviewed science showing Roundup and its primary ingredient, glyphosate, is a human carcinogen. There are hundreds of studies proving that Roundup can not only cause cancer, but is linked to a myriad of other diseases. International health agencies and toxicologists around the world agree with the science. But the EPA ignores independent peer-reviewed science and continues to protect the poison pushers’ profits instead of public health.
Bayer, since acquiring Monsanto, has been hit with over 170,000 lawsuits alleging that Roundup caused plaintiffs’ non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a type of cancer. The plaintiffs are farmers, landscapers, gardeners, and others. The science is solidly on the plaintiffs’ side, so Bayer has lost many trials so far, with juries awarding billions of dollars to the victims harmed by the corporation’s herbicide.
These lawsuits have been based on the legal argument of “failure to warn.” This means users of Roundup got cancer because they were not made aware that the product can cause cancer. If they were aware that the weedkiller could cause cancer, and was not as “safe as table salt” as Bayer claims, they may have chosen to not use Roundup in the first place.
Bayer-Monsanto is now worth only a small fraction of the $66 billion the company paid for Monsanto and the ongoing lawsuits threaten to collapse the company. So Bayer is demanding their politician puppets give them immunity.
If the EPA bows to Bayer and the state AGs’ demands, individuals would lose their right to sue Bayer for harms from its pesticides.
This amendment to pesticide regulations wouldn’t just offer a layer of protection for Bayer-Monsanto, it would protect the entire pesticide industry.
Currently, ChemChina-Syngenta is also facing over 5,800 lawsuits alleging that its paraquat herbicide caused plaintiffs’ Parkinson’s disease and that the product’s pesticide label failed to warn. These lawsuits would also be thrown out.
We CANNOT allow Bayer-Monsanto and the GMO/pesticide industry puppets in our government to re-write public health regulations in their favor. We cannot allow them to take away one of the only legal tools for people harmed by pesticides to pursue justice.
The EPA is required by law to notify the public of any new rulemaking. But the Agency did not, giving us little time to respond.
The public comment deadline closes soon. We’ve made it quick and easy to submit your comment. It would be helpful if you could take a minute to edit the pre-written comment text to make it your own. If you’re short on time, send it as-is. Please submit your comment today. Then share with everyone you know. It takes a village to stop Bayer-Monsanto.
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