The Pesticide Injury Accountability Act is a response to Bayer’s ongoing efforts over the past two years to lobby for laws at both the state and federal level that would make it harder for individuals to sue agrichemical giants based on claims that their products caused cancer and other illnesses. Those efforts were successful in two states: Georgia and North Dakota. And last week, Republicans in the House added a clause to an appropriations bill that could also make it harder for individuals to sue. Representative Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) plans to introduce an amendment to strike the provision.

“Rather than providing a liability shield so that foreign corporations are allowed to poison the American people, Congress should instead pass the Pesticide Injury Accountability Act to ensure that these chemical companies can be held accountable in federal court for the harm caused by their toxic products,” Booker said.

Organizations including the National Family Farm Coalition and Farm Action praised the bill. Groups aligned with Robert F. Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement—including Moms Across America and Children’s Health Defense, which Kennedy founded—are also backing it. While advocacy groups have been pushing for reforms to pesticide policies for decades, Booker and Pingree have long been some of the only lawmakers in Washington willing to support them.