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The bill protects farmworker, community, and environmental health by removing paraquat but creates immediate economic pain for farmers, distributors, and possibly raises some food prices during the transition.
Farm workers and rural communities will face reduced exposure to a highly toxic herbicide (paraquat), lowering acute poisoning risk and improving workplace and community health.
Soil and water contamination risks will be reduced by removing paraquat from use, protecting waterways, wildlife, and local ecosystems in agricultural areas.
Consumers, including children and youth, will face lower paraquat residues on food products because food tolerances are revoked, modestly reducing dietary exposure.
Farmers and crop producers lose access to a widely used herbicide immediately, potentially increasing weed-control costs and crop losses as they switch to alternatives.
Short-term crop-management disruptions from the ban could raise prices for some produce if alternatives are costlier or less effective, impacting consumers and farm incomes.
Distributors and sellers may incur financial losses from banned existing paraquat stocks, creating supply-chain writedowns and hardship for some small sellers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs EPA to cancel all paraquat registrations, revoke food tolerances, ban sale/use of existing stocks, and bar future reregistration.
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
Requires the EPA, upon enactment, to treat paraquat as a pesticide that generally causes unreasonable adverse environmental effects, cancel all paraquat registrations, and revoke any food tolerances or tolerance exemptions for paraquat and residues. It immediately prohibits sale and use of existing paraquat stocks and bars the EPA from re‑registering paraquat in the future.