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Committee weighs two‑year moratorium on some rodenticides amid competing public‑health and wildlife concerns
Summary
House bill 25‑16 would impose a two‑year moratorium (starting 2027) on certain anticoagulant rodenticides and direct a statewide inventory and a Washington State Academy of Sciences study; public testimony split between wildlife rehabilitators and conservation groups supporting the bill and pest‑management and agricultural representatives opposed.
The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee heard extensive testimony on House Bill 25‑16, which would place a two‑year moratorium beginning in 2027 on certain anticoagulant rodenticides and require state studies and inventories of registered products.
"Most of the raptors we treat have been exposed to rodenticides even if they're asymptomatic," Dr. Nicole Rosenhagen, lead wildlife veterinarian at PAWS, told the committee, describing organ‑confirmed anticoagulant detections in dozens of raptors and costly,…
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