The federal appropriations process determines the funding cycle of 2026-2027. This process is an avenue for big policy decisions to be packaged alongside funding decisions that have real impacts in our communities. This year lawmakers are seeking to include language in funding bills that protects chemical companies from the harms their products cause. Protect communities, not pesticide companies, by calling for the removal of this harmful language.

Section 453 in the appropriations bill for the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies would make a crucial change to pesticide labeling. Pesticide labels must evolve with the latest health-protective science. If Section 453 becomes law, it would prohibit EPA from approving a label or taking action inconsistent with its previous scientific conclusions, essentially freezing the EPA's position on a pesticide in place for decades, and eliminating the ability to hold companies accountable. This is another way pesticide companies are trying to gain immunity in the courts when they are failing to warn about the harms of exposure.

This appropriations package also includes major cuts to the EPA, and would specifically direct the EPA not to advance the rule aimed at addressing PFAS in sewage sludge in Section 507 and not to advance the rule on human carcinogen ethylene oxide in Section 457. These are dangerous policy changes.

Send your email today to call for these harmful sections to be removed from appropriations bills and not included in the Farm Bill! Let’s protect community health, not pesticide companies!