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Neonic studies highlight need to strengthen EPA pollinator rules
Neonic studies highlight need to strengthen EPA pollinator rules

A trio of recent studies, one conducted in the U.S. and the others in Europe, are highlighting some alarming facts regarding the daunting realities of neonicotinoid pesticides and their prevalence in industrial agriculture. The timing of this research coincides with the closing of the public comment period for EPA’s proposal, which is part of the White House Pollinator Strategy and once again emphasizes why the administration’s policies should focus more heavily on eliminating neonicotinoid pesticides…

How Garden Centers Are Getting Toxic, Bee-Killing Pesticides Out of Their Plants and Off of Their Shelves

Over the last decade, we’ve heard the term “colony collapse disorder” a lot, describing the die-off of honeybees, pollinators essential to maintaining our food crops. Scientists have been looking for the cause and have identified one likely source as the neonicotinoids used in pesticides.

How Garden Centers Are Getting Toxic, Bee-Killing Pesticides Out of Their Plants and Off of Their Shelves

-EcoWatch 6/1/2015

Pollinator Politics: Environmentalists Criticize Obama Plan To Save Bees

The buzz around bees has been bad lately. As we've reported, beekeepers say they lost 42 percent of honeybee colonies last summer.

And it seems that fixing what ails bees is no simple task. Over the past few decades, they've been hit by diseases and habitat loss. There's also increasing evidence that a type of pesticides called neonicotinoids are linked to bees' decline, too.

This could be bad news for all of us, since bees and…

White House makes bid to save honeybees but ignores toxic pesticides

Plan makes millions of acres of federal land more bee-friendly but does not ban the use of neonicotinoids which research shows are closely linked to bee life loss

The White House has announced an ambitious plan to “promote the health of honeybees and other pollinators” in the United States in a bid to help reverse a worrying trend that has seen the honeybee population fall by half over the last seven decades.

It includes making…

U.S. Plan to Help Bees Focuses on More Land

The U.S. government will make federal lands more friendly to bees, monarch butterflies and other pollinators, according to a White House action plan to take action to help bees, released today.

Stopping short of outright banning pesticides harmful or deadly to bees, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took a more wait-and-see attitude until results of a flurry of still-incomplete studies’ results are in.

U.S. Plan to Help Bees Focuses on More Land

-Discovery News…

To fight bee decline, Obama proposes more land to feed bees

The Obama administration hopes to save the bees by feeding them better.

A new federal plan aims to reverse America's declining honeybee and monarch butterfly populations by making millions of acres of federal land more bee-friendly, spending millions of dollars more on research and considering the use of fewer pesticides.

To fight bee decline, Obama proposes more land to feed bees

-Associated Press 5/19/2015

Obama Task Force Lays Out Plan to Save Honeybees

The White House laid out a strategy Tuesday to address a surge in honeybee deaths that includes scrutinizing the effect of pesticides on pollinators and planting more bee-friendly vegetation on federal land.

Obama Task Force Lays Out Plan to Save Honeybees

-Wall Street Journal 5/19/2015

The White House’s “Plan Bee” Initiative Wants Us To Bee Kinder To Those Troubled Bees

In the last year, beekeepers say they’ve lost 40 percent of their honey bee colonies, according to the White House. This might not seem like a big deal, but bees pretty much make the world go around. That’s why, last July, President Barack Obama directed a special force to set up a national strategy to save honey bees and other pollinators, and the force released the strategy and goals for what some are calling “Plan Bee”…