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Eco News EPA responsible for bee deaths?
Posted by Matthew Schniper on Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:23 PM
If you haven't heard the news (note I politely refrained from saying "buzz"), a Colorado beekeeper is at the center of a controversy revolving around an Environmental Protection Agency document that reveals that the agency green-lighted use of a pesticide that's fatal to honeybees.
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An updated posting yesterday on Fast Company quotes Colorado beekeeper Tom Theobald lamenting the fate of bees that might be affected by a pesticide called clothianidin, which has been banned in other countries.
The document at hand supposedly illustrates how the agency, whose mission is "to protect human health and the environment" — not to potentially destroy the insect that pollinates a third of our crops domestically — ignored warnings from its own scientists and allowed the chemical to be sold and used on food crops.
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