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Introduced September 8, 2025 by Anna Luna · Last progress September 8, 2025
The bill reduces consumer and local environmental exposure to diquat but imposes immediate economic costs and operational disruption on farmers, distributors, and potentially shifts pesticide-related health risks to other chemicals.
Consumers (including people with chronic conditions) will have lower exposure to diquat residues because tolerances and exemptions for diquat on food are revoked.
Local environmental quality and health in rural and overburdened communities may improve as diquat sales and use are halted, reducing aquatic and soil contamination and addressing environmental justice burdens.
Farmers, applicators, distributors, and small agricultural businesses will lose a herbicide option immediately and may incur disposal and replacement costs for existing stocks, raising production costs and business losses.
Consumers—particularly low-income households—could face short-term food-supply disruptions or price increases for crops that relied on diquat for control.
growers and nearby communities may experience shifted or increased health risks if alternative crop-protection chemicals are used in place of diquat, rather than true elimination of pesticide exposure.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Immediately cancels all EPA registrations of diquat, revokes food residue tolerances, bans sale/use of existing stocks, and bars future reregistration, effective on enactment.
Cancels all EPA registrations for the herbicide diquat and treats the chemical as causing unreasonable adverse environmental effects; revokes any federal food residue tolerances or exemptions for diquat; prohibits sale and use of existing stocks; and bars the EPA from reregistering diquat. These actions take effect on the date the law is enacted.