Lawmakers Launch Bipartisan Bill to Block Trump’s Executive Order on Glyphosate

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.,Childrens Health Defense:

Two days afterPresident Donald Trumpordered the U.S. to boost production of glyphosate, two federal lawmakersintroduced bipartisan legislationto block the controversial executive order.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) on Friday introduced theNo Immunity for Glyphosate Act(H.R. 7601).

If passed, the bill would block federal funding to implement the executive order. The legislation also explicitly grants people injured by glyphosate — or elemental phosphorus, its key ingredient — to sue manufacturers for their injuries.

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Trump’s executive orderoffered U.S.-based chemical makers immunity from liability if the government orders them, under theDefense Production Act of 1950, to produce glyphosate.

Glyphosateis the active ingredient in Monsanto’sRoundup weedkiller. Bayer, whichacquired Monsantoin June 2018, is facing tens of thousands of lawsuits from people alleging Roundup caused them to develop cancer. The company is the only producer of the chemical in the U.S. It alsosupplies about 40%of the world’s glyphosate.

Bayerhas been aggressively pursuing legislative and judicial strategies to block such lawsuits at the state and federal levels.

“If we’re Making America Healthy Again, government shouldn’t be promoting glyphosate and providing liability immunity for corporations making it,”Massie said on X.