Hidden in the House Interior & Environment Appropriations Act is Section 453 - a dangerous provision that could let pesticide companies continue poisoning us with ZERO consequences. 

If Section 453 passes, pesticide giants could gain a permanent legal shield by hiding behind outdated EPA warning labels - even when their products may cause cancer, brain damage, and birth defects. 

Here's how it works: Section 453 would attempt to block states and the federal government from acting on a pesticide’s harmful effects if those harms differ in any way from the findings of EPA’s most recent health or cancer assessment. EPA’s track record on these assessments is abysmal; many pesticides have not had one done in decades. Unless EPA does a new assessment—which can take years or even decades to complete — agencies could be stopped from updating safety warnings or food safety tolerances even if new science shows further harm.

Section 453 or similar liability shield language is expected to see support in both House and Senate appropriations bill versions once the current short-term budget is resolved. Senators should work to ensure this language does not make it into the Senate version of the bill, and Representatives should work to ensure it does not pass a full floor vote in the House, where it has already passed out of Committee and will be going to a full vote soon. If enough people take action, we can still stop it from passing!

Can you send a message to Congress today? Tell them not to give pesticide companies a free pass to continue poisoning Americans!