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The bill removes paraquat to prevent serious health and environmental harms but creates immediate economic costs for farmers, distributors, and may raise some food prices in the short term.
Farm workers and rural communities will have reduced exposure to a highly toxic herbicide, lowering acute poisoning risk and potential long-term health harms.
Consumers, including children, will face lower paraquat residues on food because food tolerances are revoked, reducing dietary exposure.
Rural communities and wildlife will experience reduced soil and water contamination and less ecosystem harm as paraquat is removed from use.
Farmers and crop producers lose access to a widely used herbicide immediately, increasing weed-control costs and raising the risk of crop losses.
Consumers and farmers may face short-term higher produce prices and crop-management disruptions if available alternatives are costlier or less effective.
Small businesses and distributors will incur inventory losses from banned existing paraquat stocks, causing financial strain for sellers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs EPA to cancel paraquat registrations, revoke food tolerances, ban sale/use of existing stocks, and bar reregistration effective on enactment.
Requires the EPA to treat paraquat as a pesticide that generally causes unreasonable adverse effects on the environment, cancel all EPA registrations for paraquat, revoke all food tolerances or tolerance exemptions for paraquat residues, prohibit sale and use of existing paraquat stocks, and bar EPA from reregistering paraquat. All actions take effect on the date of enactment.
Official title: To cancel the registration of all uses of the pesticide paraquat, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 18, 2026 by Anna Luna · Last progress June 18, 2026