{"id":66260,"date":"2025-07-24T13:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/?p=66260"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:45:25","slug":"booker-introduces-bill-to-give-individuals-the-right-to-sue-pesticide-manufacturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2025\/07\/24\/booker-introduces-bill-to-give-individuals-the-right-to-sue-pesticide-manufacturers\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Bill Would Ensure Individuals Can Sue Pesticide Manufacturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>July 24, 2025<\/b> \u2013 Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booker.senate.gov\/news\/press\/booker-introduces-pesticide-injury-accountability-act\">introduced<\/a> a bill that would change federal pesticide laws to codify the individual right to sue companies for harms caused by agricultural chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>The Pesticide Injury Accountability Act is a response to Bayer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2025\/04\/08\/bayers-effort-to-block-roundup-lawsuits-kicks-into-high-gear\/\">ongoing efforts<\/a> over the <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2024\/03\/27\/inside-bayers-state-by-state-efforts-to-stop-pesticide-lawsuits\/\">past two years<\/a> to lobby for laws at both the state and federal level that would make it harder for individuals to sue agrichemical giants based on claims that their products caused cancer and other illnesses. Those efforts were successful in two states: Georgia and North Dakota. And last week, Republicans in the House <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/food-policy-tracker\/#house-bill-would-halt-assessment-of-pfas-risk-on-farms\">added a clause<\/a> to an appropriations bill that could also make it harder for individuals to sue. Representative Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) plans to introduce an amendment to strike the provision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than providing a liability shield so that foreign corporations are allowed to poison the American people, Congress should instead pass the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booker.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/pesticideinjuryaccountabilityact.pdf\">Pesticide Injury Accountability Act<\/a> to ensure that these chemical companies can be held accountable in federal court for the harm caused by their toxic products,\u201d Booker said.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations including the National Family Farm Coalition and Farm Action praised the bill. Groups aligned with Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s Make America Healthy Again movement\u2014including Moms Across America and Children\u2019s Health Defense, which Kennedy founded\u2014are also backing it. While advocacy groups have been pushing for reforms to pesticide policies for decades, Booker and Pingree have long been some of the only lawmakers in Washington willing to support them.<\/p>\n<p>Booker\u2019s bill was just one of several pieces of food and farm legislation introduced last week. Some of the following bills could get attached to a farm bill if Congress decides to move forward with a slimmed-down version later this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adams.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/adams.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/chu_015_xml.pdf\"><b>Asunci\u00f3n Valdivia Heat Illness, Injury and Fatality Prevention Act<\/b><\/a><br \/>Named after a California farmworker who died of heat stroke after picking grapes, the bill would direct the Occupational Standards and Health Agency (OSHA) to create stronger regulations to protect workers from dangerous heat. It was introduced in both the House and the Senate with a long list of co-sponsors, all Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/1849eea4801\/50eab3df-8bbe-4494-8cb9-489657b13ca9.pdf\"><b>DIGNITY Act<\/b><\/a><br \/>Among other immigration provisions, the bill would fund border security and mandate the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-verify.gov\/\">E-verify<\/a> while creating a new \u200b\u200bpath toward green card status (but not citizenship) for immigrants who have been living and working in the U.S. without legal authorization for at least five years. It <a href=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/1849eea4801\/50eab3df-8bbe-4494-8cb9-489657b13ca9.pdf\">was introduced<\/a> in the House by Representatives Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Florida) and Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) and has bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bacon.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/afida_improvements_act_of_2025.pdf\"><b>AFIDA Improvements Act\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>Makes changes to the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) to mandate more comprehensive, timely tracking of foreign investment in and purchases of farmland. Representative Don Bacon (R-Nebraska) <a href=\"https:\/\/bacon.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2725\">introduced the bill<\/a> along with nine House colleagues from both sides of the aisle. (<a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/food-policy-tracker#booker-introduces-bill-to-give-individuals-the-right-to-sue-pesticide-manufacturers\">Link to this post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 24, 2025 \u2013 Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) has introduced a bill that would change federal pesticide laws to codify the individual right to sue companies for harms caused by agricultural chemicals. 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