by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:
(U.S. Right to Know) The pesticide industry has spent decades building a highly effective influence operation in Washington, D.C., shaping how pesticides are regulated and how American agriculture operates. Its political influence did not begin with the Trump administration and has extended across both Republican and Democratic administrations.
But over the past 18 months, the Trump administration has delivered a string of victories to the pesticide industry that could reshape pesticide use and public health protections for years to come.
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This tracker documents the Trump administration’s favors to the pesticide industry since January 2025.
Personnel is policy: The Trump administration has filled many key posts with pesticide industry allies.
U.S. Right to Know identified 26 administration officials with ties to the pesticide industry’s lobbying or legal network, including 11 political appointees at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where former chemical industry lobbyists now occupy the four highest-ranking positions overseeing federal pesticide regulations.
More PFAS pesticide approvals: In July, EPA approved three new pesticide active ingredients that many scientists classify as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), bringing the total number of PFAS pesticides approved since November 2025 to five.
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