Congress: No Cancer Gag Act!

Chemical manufacturer Bayer, the maker of Roundup, is pushing legislation in states across the country to shield pesticide companies from health-related lawsuits.

Bayer has been losing at the state level, and now Cancer Gag Act language has been included in an EPA spending bill. This provision, Section 453, must come out – our health depends on it.

Demand that your members of Congress oppose the Cancer Gag Act!

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I am writing to urge you to oppose efforts to block EPA from improving the rules for warning labels on pesticides.

Section 453 in the FY26 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill would forbid EPA from doing anything to strengthen warning labels on pesticides, essentially freezing the EPA’s position on pesticides in place regardless of evolving science or emerging harms. It will eliminate EPA’s ability to hold pesticide manufacturers accountable for the harms their products cause.

Industry lobbyists want us to believe this bill protects farmers, but in reality, this legislation is designed to protect corporations that have failed to provide consumers with sufficient warnings about risks associated with their product. This is the same playbook we’ve seen with products like tobacco, asbestos, and opioids: when consumers use litigation to hold corporations accountable, those corporations turn to legislative action to avoid responsibility for the damage courts determine their products have caused.

By 2022, Bayer-Monsanto had settled over 100,000 Roundup lawsuits, paying out about $11 billion in damages. These lawsuits have been brought by people, including farmers, who are suffering from cancer and other harms linked to Roundup. These legal actions are far from “frivolous,” and to imply that they are is a gross distortion of justice.

EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs relies on chemical corporations to conduct and submit data from pesticide studies – akin to the fox guarding the henhouse. There are many documented cases of such companies hiding negative data and funding research that makes their products look safer. The system for placing warning labels on these chemicals is already not nearly protective enough – weakening it is a dangerous gamble with our health. Cancer is already the second-leading cause of death in the United States, and this bill moves us in the absolute wrong direction.

I urge you to vote against any spending bill that contains provisions giving pesticide companies immunity to cause harm. We need pesticide labels that reflect the latest science. Please oppose Section 453 in the FY26 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill and urge your colleagues to do the same.

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