{"id":671,"date":"2026-06-25T14:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:42:17","slug":"the-supreme-court-deals-maha-a-loss-on-pesticides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court Deals MAHA a Loss on Pesticides"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal law protects Monsanto from tens of thousands of lawsuits from people claiming the weed killer Roundup caused their cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=669\">Trump Has \u2018Almost Completely\u2019 Erased LGBTQ+ Data. Is Race Next?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 7-2 decision effectively ends a legal pathway for people who say they were harmed by products that the federal government declined to adequately regulate.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is a loss for the Make America Healthy Again Movement, which sees glyphosate \u2014 the widely used herbicide in Roundup \u2014 as the poster child for dangerous chemicals in the food system and has long fought to end the chemical\u2019s widespread use and hold its makers accountable.<\/p>\n<p>It is, however, a win for the agriculture industry. Industry experts were concerned that glyphosate producers would suffer financially without legal-liability protection.<\/p>\n<p>The fight over Roundup has exposed a growing rift between MAHA leaders and the Trump administration, which argued on behalf of chemical manufacturers in this court case and even invoked the Defense Production Act to try to increase production of glyphosate.<\/p>\n<p>The justices ruled that the federal government\u2019s decision that Roundup doesn\u2019t need a cancer warning label preempts \u2014 essentially overrides \u2014 state-level laws that require warnings for possibly dangerous chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEPA critically evaluates the pesticide\u2019s label to ensure that the label contains all warnings necessary to protect human health,\u201d Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the opinion for the majority.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=667\">Looks at Nationals Fans, Feeling Again<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Environmental Protection Agency doesn\u2019t require pesticide manufacturers to warn consumers of cancer risk from Roundup\u2019s main ingredient, glyphosate, on the label.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a matter of federal law, Monsanto legally must use a label without a cancer warning unless and until EPA approves or requires a change,\u201d Kavanaugh wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch dissented.<\/p>\n<p>Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, has spent billions of dollars settling state-level cases from tens of thousands of people who\u2019ve claimed they developed cancer from exposure to the chemical.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration continues to lean heavily on the power of federal preemption, using the concept to attack more liberal states for regulations it sees as contrary to White House priorities. The glyphosate case is just one example: Across issues of pollution, \u201csanctuary cities,\u201d artificial intelligence, and even prediction markets, the administration has pursued preemption arguments to prevent states from regulating more aggressively than the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was brought by Missouri resident John Durnell, who had regularly sprayed Roundup around his neighborhood for two decades. After developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Durnell sued Bayer in 2019 saying the company failed to warn him of the risks.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=665\">A Mock Arch and Daily Rodeos: Trump\u2019s Fair Takes Over the Mall<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court ruled that federal law protects Monsanto from lawsuits claiming Roundup caused their cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Supreme Court Deals MAHA a Loss on Pesticides - Modern Home Journals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=671\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Supreme Court Deals MAHA a Loss on Pesticides - Modern Home Journals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The court ruled that federal law protects Monsanto from lawsuits claiming Roundup caused their cancer.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=671\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Modern Home Journals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-25T14:42:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/533de239efc09a2ab59959cc1bff86d0\"},\"headline\":\"The Supreme Court Deals MAHA a Loss on Pesticides\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-25T14:42:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671\"},\"wordCount\":460,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/3944dfde9d21c1bac3a800c95d275b1e-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Courts\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671\",\"name\":\"The Supreme Court Deals MAHA a Loss on Pesticides - Modern Home Journals\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/3944dfde9d21c1bac3a800c95d275b1e-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-25T14:42:17+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/533de239efc09a2ab59959cc1bff86d0\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/?p=671#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/3944dfde9d21c1bac3a800c95d275b1e-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/modernhomejournals.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/3944dfde9d21c1bac3a800c95d275b1e-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1706,\"caption\":\"Culture Apothecary podcaster Alex Clark holds a bottle of Roundup weed and grass killer as she speaks at a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court as justices heard oral arguments in Monsanto Company v. 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