Time for Emergency Action on Pesticide in Order to Protect Bees The Pesticide Action Network

The following article is posted with permission from the Pesticide Action Network.

A coalition of environmental groups and beekeepers submitted more than 250,000 petitions to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, urging immediate suspension of a pesticide linked to colony collapse disorder (CCD) in bees. The call comes three months after the legal petition was filed, and as beekeepers report significant bee kills across the United States, linked to neonicotinoid pesticides.