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Tuesday, August 14th, 2012

Bees Dying From Agricultural Chemical: EPA Won’t Act

Author:     AMY LOU JENKINS
Source:     Examiner.com
Publication Date:     11-Aug-12
 Link: Bees Dying From Agricultural Chemical: EPA Won’t Act
Stephan:   It's clear that once again several special interest virtual corporate states have corrupted their regulatory oversight agency. That seems pretty straightforward. What I really do not understand, even accepting the fact that in our present system there is no other priority but profit, is how the issue of the collapse of the bees is not creating more alarm. Is it really possible that we are that shortsighted? I urge you to contact the EPA and register your outrage.

Last month, for the second time, the EPA refused to intervene to stop the use of the pesticide clothianidin, which scientists believe is at least partially to blame for the alarming rise in bee colony collapse The sudden bee die-off which has claimed about 30% of the U.S. honey bee population each year since 2006. The EPA has no plans to review clothianidin again until 2018. By then it may be too late. A public comment period is now open and citizens may share their concerns with the EPA.

One of three bites of food you eat is reliant on honey bee pollination. Everyone who eats needs bees.

Senator Senator Gillibrand from New York, a heavily agricultural state that depends on the bees, is demanding that the EPA step up its formal review process of the nicotines from 2018 to 2013. In her letter to EPA Administrator Shelia Jackson, Senator Gillibrand wrote:

‘Protecting honey bees and other pollinators is vital to American agriculture. In fact, one in three bites of food is reliant on honey bee pollination, and threats to pollinators concern the entire food system and could drive up the cost of food in this country. Highlighting the […]

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