Chemical agriculture descended on Washington last week on two high-stakes fronts. At the Supreme Court, Bayer-Monsanto pressed a case that could reshape the legal landscape for people harmed by exposure to widely used crop chemicals. Just steps away on Capitol Hill, the House delivered a sharp rebuke to the industry’s agenda, voting 280–142 to remove a controversial provision from the GOP farm bill that would have granted sweeping liability protections to pesticide makers and overridden state and local pesticide safety rules.

TNL’s Carey Gillam was inside the courtroom for the arguments before the justices and tracked the parallel fight in Congress, where the industry-backed measure was stripped from the bill with strong bipartisan support.