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Exhibit 084

Legal immunity for pesticide companies removed from EPA funding bill

Exhibit 084 ยท Journalism

Legal immunity for pesticide companies removed from EPA funding bill

The provision, referred to as Section 435, would have made it harder for individuals to sue pesticide manufacturers over alleged health harms.

Appropriators removed a pesticide labeling-immunity provision from the fiscal year 2026 EPA funding bill.

Source
Civil Eats
Date
6 January 2026
Quoted from
Civil Eats (Lisa Held), 6 January 2026, paragraph 3 (live fetch; the page is partly member-gated but this text was shown)
Grade
Reported
Document
https://civileats.com/2026/01/06/legal-immunity-for-pesticide-companies-removed-from-epa-funding-bill/
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Findings citing this exhibit

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Finding MED-5.7
Primary record Appropriators and the House removed pesticide liability protections from two bills in 2026. The same year, an executive order covering glyphosate herbicides conferred Defense Production Act immunity.