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https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-epa-pesticides--2629292283.htmlTrump EPA OKs 'Emergency' to Dump Bee-Killing Pesticide on 16 Million Acres
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported last week that in 2018 it issued so-called "emergency" approvals to spray sulfoxafloran insecticide the agency considers "very highly toxic" to beeson more than 16 million acres of crops known to attract bees.
Of the 18 states where the approvals were granted for sorghum and cotton crops, 12 have been given the approvals for at least four consecutive years for the same "emergency."
Last year the EPA's Office of the Inspector General released a report finding that the agency's practice of routinely granting "emergency" approval for pesticides across millions of acres does not effectively measure risks to human health or the environment.
"Spraying 16 million acres of bee-attractive crops with a bee-killing pesticide in a time of global insect decline is beyond the pale, even for the Trump administration," said Nathan Donley, a senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity. "The EPA is routinely misusing the 'emergency' process to get sulfoxaflor approved because it's too toxic to make it through normal pesticide reviews."
I am beyond speechless. More at link.
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Volaris
(10,274 posts)So let's just kill the crops that need pollinating to grow (via bees) because let's kill all the bees.
It's gonna take a second dust bowl before farmers decide liberals care more about them than Republicans ....
Oh well...fuck them and their profit margins in the meantime, I guess ....
KT2000
(20,586 posts)They can't do it fast enough.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Cha
(297,503 posts)possible. They know who the fuck they are.
LW1977
(1,236 posts)The stupid! It burns!
sakabatou
(42,170 posts)C Moon
(12,221 posts)Kablooie
(18,637 posts)They are blindly following Putin's orders I'm sure.
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)I want to weep.
I live in an HOA community, and they are always spraying Heaven only knows what around here. I am constantly finding dead bees.
I grow fruits and vegetables, and I have a pesticide free yard. But I have neighbors on one side who have someone come out and spray their property every month.
As a human race, are we ever going to wake up to what we are doing to the planet and to ourselves?
Duppers
(28,125 posts)You could try.
Besides plain vinegar kills unwanted grass.
Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)I use plain vinegar to kill weeds all the time. It kills the weeds, AND makes me hungry for a salad!
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)Is this something that happened under Trump or has it been going on for at least the last 4 years?
femmedem
(8,204 posts)It's horrible regardless.