What the U.S. Supreme Court’s pesticide ruling means for gardeners and farm workers

Photo: “Roundup, Monsanto” by Mike Mozart via Flickr. CC BY 2.0. Article by Bill Jeffery. The Conversation – September 24, 2026.

In June, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state governments’ duty-to-warn laws do not oblige chemical manufacturer Monsanto to disclose a cancer risk on its pesticide labels. Monsanto manufactures the well-known pesticide Roundup that has been the subject of thousands of lawsuits in the U.S. and Canada. The company argued that if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not require a cancer warning label, states cannot hold it liable in court for failing to warn consumers about cancer risks. […]

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