Tell the EPA to Stop Bayer’s Sneak Attack on Pesticide Warnings!

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Eleven corrupt State Attorneys General from Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, and South Dakota, have petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of Bayer (Monsanto), Syngenta (ChemChina), and Corteva (Dow-DuPont-Pioneer) to take away your right to know about pesticide toxicity—and your right to sue these companies for failure to warn.

TAKE ACTION BY MARCH 24: Tell the EPA Not to Mess With States’ Right to Hold Pesticide Companies Liable for Failure to Warn!

Juries awarded billions in compensation to Roundup-exposed cancer victims, because Monsanto knew its herbicide caused non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma but failed to warn its customers.

Bayer should change their product formulations, but they want to change the law instead. They’re pressuring state legislators, telling them they’d sooner take Roundup herbicide off the market than make weed-killers that won’t give farmers cancer.

Georgia’s legislature is the first to cave. A law that would deprive Georgia’s pesticide victims of their right to sue awaits Governor Brian Kemp’s signature.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency, long controlled by Monsanto, won’t admit that Roundup causes cancer, so they don’t require the weed killer to be labeled as a carcinogen. Bayer’s theory, submitted by the eleven State Attorneys General, is that if the EPA ignores the cancer risks so should the states and the courts.

In 2019, Trump’s EPA told California that it couldn’t require cancer warnings on glyphosate-based herbicides like Roundup. Then, in 2022, Biden’s EPA said it could, as long as it included a disclaimer that the EPA doesn’t think glyphosate causes cancer.

The eleven State Attorneys General want the EPA to go further and prohibit “any state labeling requirements inconsistent with EPA 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.”

TAKE ACTION BY MARCH 24: Tell the EPA to Stop Bayer’s Sneak Attack on Pesticide Warnings!

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Eleven corrupt State Attorneys General want the Environmental Protection Agency to prohibit “any state labeling requirements inconsistent with EPA 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.” Bayer’s hoping this will relieve them of their duty to warn under state tort laws that give injured people the right to sue.

They’re acting on behalf of Bayer (Monsanto), Syngenta (ChemChina), Corteva (Dow-DuPont-Pioneer), and BASF, against the corporations’ victims. The corporations hope the EPA will relieve them of their duty to warn their customers about the hazards of their pesticides and take away pesticide victims’ right to sue.

They want the EPA to change the federal law which clearly states, “A State may regulate the sale or use of any federally registered pesticide or device in the State, but only if and to the extent the regulation does not permit any sale or use prohibited by this Act,” which is followed by a clause requiring uniformity of labeling. By focusing on the uniformity of labels, they want the EPA to prohibit states from enforcing any duty to warn other than what the EPA requires on their labels.

It would be great if the EPA required more comprehensive information about the health harms of pesticides on their labels, but it is unrealistic to expect EPA labels to stay current with the latest science on what pesticides do to our bodies.

There is new information all the time. One new review of human and animal research on glyphosate, found that the world's most widely used herbicide disrupts female hormones and damages the ovaries and uterus in ways that make it more difficult for women to get pregnant. The study also tied glyphosate to polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis — two conditions that are among the leading causes of infertility.

Current law rightly places the responsibility on pesticide manufacturers to be aware of the harms of their products and to warn their customers—or reformulate to make safer products.

Please deny the Attorneys General’s petition.

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