Why are so many state legislatures advancing bills to give immunity to pesticide makers?
To poison us in all impunity...
HB 129 was referred to the Civil Justice and Claims Subcommittee as of January 15. The House bill was filed for first reading on March 4, and the bill passed after a public hearing on April 3 as amended here. HB/CS 129 is now in the Housing, Agriculture & Tourism Subcommittee.
Florida House Bill 129 grants pesticide makers liability protection…
This terrible idea shields companies from accountability for harm, prioritizing profits over safety.
Many other U.S. states are currently trying to do the same…
Here’s a small part of the above article:
While the 2025 session for most states has only just begun, a few have already introduced pesticide liability limitation bills, and more are expected to follow. As of the date this article is published, lawmakers in at least Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wyoming have introduced new pesticide liability limitation legislation. Missouri’s 2025 bill, HB 544, is identical to the bill proposed in 2024. Oklahoma’s bill, HB 1755, is also identical to the bills introduced in 2024. However, the bills introduced in Florida, Mississippi, and Wyoming differ.
Florida’s 2025 bill, HB 129, contains the same language regarding distributors, dealers, and applicators as the 2024 bill, but adds language that would limit liability for pesticide manufacturers. Specifically, HB 129 provides that:
a products liability action […] based on a failure to warn may not be brought or maintained against a manufacturer for any pesticide registered with [EPA] if the label is: (1) approved by [EPA]; (2) consistent with the most recent human health assessment performed under FIFRA; or (3) consistent with [EPA’s] carcinogenicity classification of the pesticide under FIFRA.
Like the pesticide liability limitation bills introduced in Iowa and Idaho last year, HB 129 would consider a federally approved pesticide label to be a defense against any failure to warn claim.
The bill introduced in Mississippi, HB 1221, provides that any “manufacturer or seller of a pesticide” registered under FIFRA and approved for use in Mississippi “shall not be liable in civil action related to the labeling of the pesticide, including a product liability action alleging failure to warn, if the pesticide bore a label approved by the EPA under FIFRA at the time of sale.” Should HB 1221 become law, plaintiffs in Mississippi would not be able to bring any civil action against a federally registered pesticide, specifically including any claims for failure to warn. Like the 2024 Florida pesticide liability limitation bill, the HB 1221 is broader in scope than the bills that seek to limit only failure to warn claims.
Finally, the Wyoming bill, HB 0285, states that “the duty of a manufacturer or seller of a pesticide to warn a consumer or the public about the risks associated with the pesticide shall be presumed to be satisfied if the pesticide bears the label approved by [EPA] under [FIFRA.]” In other words, instead of prohibiting plaintiffs in Wyoming from raising failure to warn claims to challenge pesticide products, HB 0285 would make a federally registered pesticide label a defense to any failure to warn claim. Importantly, HB 0285 also provides that the defense of a federally registered pesticide label could be overcome by “a showing that the weight of scientific evidence does not support the scientific basis on which the required warning is premised and that the manufacturer or seller knew or should have known at the time the pesticide was sold that the required warning was not supported by the weight of scientific evidence.” To date, HB 0285 is the only pesticide liability bill introduced in either 2025 or 2024 that would allow the failure to warn claims to proceed if the plaintiff demonstrates that the federally registered label is not based on sound scientific evidence.
So why would you shield pesticide manufacturers from being sued by people who have been harmed by their products? Probably because they use a shit ton of it and want to continue doing so without repercussions…
Yep, they want to continue to poison us without having to pay anything for colateral damages like cancers, parkinson, drinking water & soil poisoning and so on…
Like with the vaccines, but just worse… Because we all have to eat and drink, otherwise we die…
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Exactly. I guess we can just quit eating vegetables, fruit, and grain!
I just saw your note about your children being on vacation - enjoy them!
(The next thing you know, they’re adults and not nearly so much fun. 🤪)