Ban Atrazine Toxicants Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] [Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 9981 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9981 To prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 11, 2024 Mr. Nadler (for himself, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Norton, and Ms. Adams) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Ban Atrazine Toxicants Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Atrazine is the second-most used herbicide in the United States, with approximately 80,000,000 pounds used annually. (2) Atrazine has been banned in the European Union since 2003, and in Italy and Germany since 1991 due to it…