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Permanent LinkMeeting Public Comments
Subcommittee meeting and times are as follows:
A bill for an act relating to tort liability involving pesticides.
Subcommittee members: Harris-CH, Jones, Srinivas
Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Location: RM 103, Sup. Ct. Chamber
Names and comments are public records. Remaining information is considered a confidential record.
Comments Submitted:
Download Comments02-04-2024
Victor Miiller [self]
Legal liability for poor farming practices from start to finish, is the only way to clean up the current environmental dilema for our air and water.
02-04-2024
Barbara and Jim Dale []
In our lifetime agrichemicals have changed farming, not always for the better. Jim's brother died a couple of years ago having suffered from Parkinson's for many years. Pesticide exposure may have caused his long suffering and many hospitalizations.Surely we can do better by our friends and relatives in Iowa and other farming states.
02-05-2024
Georgia Vajpeyi []
Please honor the farmers and their employees and family members who still choose to stay in one of theMost dangerous professions in our country and DO NOT SUPPORT any bills to limit liability or financial compensation for harm caused because ChemChina and other companies did not fully warn these people or disclose the known damage their products could cause.
02-05-2024
Dennis LaBrune [Self ]
Protect our farmers and city gardners from these chemicals that china wont sell in their country. Standup and say no!
02-05-2024
Patti Jakoubek []
The water quality in this state is abysmal and now you are trying to ram through a law that will limit liability to corporations who already have more power than any of the citizens of this state. Let's put emphasis on ecological farming practices and try to improve the water and soil quality of the State of Iowa.
02-06-2024
Elizabeth Adrian []
Iowa has some of the worst water quality and one of the highest cancer rates in the US. Exactly, WHO so you care about? It sure isn't the children in Iowa.
02-06-2024
Lindsay Maher []
Another day another tort reform bill limiting the ability for injured Iowans from having their case heard unhindered. Agrochemicals have been pulled from the market in the past due to their destructive nature and undisclosed harms. They are hardly worthy of any sort of protection from liability regardless of what the EPA says. Why is the legislature and specifically the Chairman of the Agriculture committee seeking to limit their liability and violate the rights of Iowans to justice?Do not pass this bill.
02-07-2024
Jasanna Czellar []
Agrochemicals are known harmful substances that have many times been pulled in the past. Why would we want to remove accountability from the companies that have only removed them, due to financial pressure? Not due to knowing their harm. Our waterways and air has high pollution. Do we think that allowing more flexibility in the world of chemicals sprayed, will clean this up? Money talks. And accountability is needed more instead of less.
02-07-2024
Monica Bates []
In 1990 we did a paper on glyphosate that was presented to the Iowa legislature. They did nothing. Since then the problem has ballooned. Now we have older farmers, their wives, hired men, and babies as young as three months old dying of cancer. And we have an onslaught of diseases of the digestive tract. The very tract the insects die of losing. We don't need Roundup or China or Bayer. Ban glyphosate immediately not give them a free pass. Maybe our governor should drink a glass full to prove it's safe. IT is not nor is paraquat! Get your head out of your asses. This is no asset, it is a liability and a death sentence and after the bees are all dead we will all be dead too.