Trump EPA OKs 'Emergency' to Dump Bee-Killing Pesticide on 16 Million Acres

[Stonepounder]

https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-epa-pesticides--2629292283.html

Trump 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 sulfoxaflor—an insecticide the agency considers "very highly toxic" to bees—on 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]

1. Time for states and the courts to kick into gear.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. I truly cannot sbhor this human stain more.

[Volaris]

3. Yeah because thats a wonderful idea....

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]

4. how to kill a civilization

They can't do it fast enough.

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. JFC!

[Cha]

6. No thanks to all the shitheads who made this

possible. They know who the fuck they are.

[LW1977]

7. Bencheeto's arteries can't clog fast enough!

The stupid! It burns!

[sakabatou]

8. Trump's going to kill us by a thousand cuts

[C Moon]

9. Putin approved.

[Kablooie]

10. Everything they are doing is designed to destroy the United States and all Americans.

They are blindly following Putin's orders I'm sure.

[The Wielding Truth]

11. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri,

Mississippi, North Carolina, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

[SunSeeker]

12. I hope somebody is suing to stop this.

[Dem2theMax]

13. I didn't need to read that just before going to bed.

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]

14. Complain to the HOA.

You could try.
Besides plain vinegar kills unwanted grass.

[Dem2theMax]

18. I think I will gather up a group and go together to the HOA.

I use plain vinegar to kill weeds all the time. It kills the weeds, AND makes me hungry for a salad!

[Revanchist]

15. I"m confused

Is this something that happened under Trump or has it been going on for at least the last 4 years?

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."

[femmedem]

17. You're not confused. It started under Obama and has continued under Trump.

It's horrible regardless.

[secondwind]

16. WTF??!!!????!!?