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US approves Bee death Pesticide as EU Bans it.

  • by: Wanda Teston
  • recipient: Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Gina McCarthy

The loss of bees as pollinators for our crops could be a global catastrophe.  Not only have neonicotinoid pesticides been linked repeatedly to mass bee deaths, also known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), but the continued use of such pesticides threatens other aspects of nature (and humans) Read more at: http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/05/insanity-us-approves-bee-death-pesticide-as-eu-bans-it.html

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Dear Gina McCarthy, Administrator, EPA:

 Corporate politics is business as usual inside the United States, as I am once again shocked to learn that the EPA has sided with industry lobbyists over public health in approving a highly dangerous pesticide that the European Union recently decided to ban over fears of environmental devastation. This issue needs to be revisited and changed in order to ban this insecticide in the United States.

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