Nobody asked you.
That's the part nobody's talking about as Sundar Pichai's company quietly filed a federal permit to flood American neighborhoods with lab-grown insects.
The EPA comment period closes June 5th – and most residents still have no idea this is happening.
The Tech Giant That Won't Stay in Its Lane
Sundar Pichai runs Alphabet – the trillion-dollar corporation behind Google, Gmail, and YouTube.
His employees donated more than $16 million to Democrats in a single election cycle trying to keep Trump out of office.
After Trump won anyway, a leaked internal video showed Pichai and Google's founders calling Trump supporters "extremists" and saying the outcome "conflicts with many of Google's core values."
Now this same man is asking the federal government for permission to release 32 million bacteria-carrying insects into American backyards.
The life sciences arm of his company, Verily, just filed for an Experimental Use Permit to release up to 32 million lab-bred male mosquitoes across California and Florida over the next two years.
Florida gets 16 million in year one.
California gets 16 million in year two.
The mosquitoes are infected with a bacterium called Wolbachia.
When they mate with wild females, the eggs don't hatch – gradually wiping out local mosquito populations.
Verily says AI-powered sorting ensures only males are released, since males don't bite.
Your neighborhood. No vote. No warning.
Rep. Burchett Said What Every American Was Thinking
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) put it perfectly when the story broke.
"Why does Google have 32 million mosquitos?" Burchett posted on X. "Have we not learned our lesson with Kudzu, Sparrows, Black Birds, Asian Carp? Should I go on? Don't mess with the balance of nature."
He's right.
History is littered with interventions that looked brilliant on paper and became disasters in the wild.
https://twitter.com/timburchett/status/2060905941201998222?s=20
In 1935, Australia introduced cane toads to control beetles destroying sugar cane crops.
Today, cane toads are one of the most destructive invasive species on the continent – and they're still spreading.
The mongoose was introduced to Hawaii to control rats in the 1800s.
It ate native birds instead.
Kudzu was promoted by the U.S. government as a miracle plant for erosion control in the 1930s.
It now smothers millions of acres across the American South.
Every single one of those disasters started with experts saying "trust us."
A Company That Thinks It Has the Power of Gods
Critics have raised a question Verily hasn't answered: what happens to the birds, bats, fish, frogs, and dragonflies that feed on mosquitoes when local populations collapse?
Ecosystems don't operate in isolation.
Pull one species out at scale and something else shifts – and the thing that shifts is rarely what the engineers planned for.
But here's what you really need to understand about who's asking for this permit.
This is the same company that censored conservative content for years while Pichai sat before Congress and insisted nothing partisan was happening.
The same company that tracks your location, reads your Gmail, and controls what you see in search results.
https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/2061563185979916671?s=20
The same company whose founders watched Trump win in 2016 and called you an extremist for voting for him.
That company now wants to manage the insect population in your backyard – and the federal government is quietly processing the paperwork while the clock runs out on public comments.
Sundar Pichai Doesn't Live Near the Release Sites
The EPA docket is EPA-HQ-OPP-2025-3951.
Public comments close Thursday at regulations.gov.
But here's the thing about Sundar Pichai – he won't be in Fresno when those mosquitoes land.
He won't be in the Florida neighborhood where his company's vehicles make their first run.
He'll be in his office in Mountain View telling investors how Debug is scaling beautifully.
The people who actually live near the release sites had no vote, no warning, and no say.
That's not science.
That's a tech billionaire who thinks he knows better than you doing whatever he wants to your community because nobody stopped him.
Sources:
- Brooke Mallory, "Google's Parent Company Seeks EPA Permit to Release 32M Lab-Bred Mosquitoes in Calif. and Fla.," One America News, June 2, 2026.
- Tim Burchett (@timburchett), post on X, June 2, 2026.
- Bill Walton, "Google's Utopian Vision," The Bill Walton Show, Substack.
- National Park Service, "Biocontrols in NCR," U.S. National Park Service.