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  <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">As if the situation weren’t bad enough for the bees already, EPA is once again turning its back on protecting pollinators by proposing to expand the use of yet <i>more</i> bee-toxic pesticides.  <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bees are essential for one out of three bites of food we eat. But they are being wiped out by the widespread use of certain chemicals – specifically systemic insecticides, like neonicotinoids (“neonics” for short). Despite numerous scientific studies showing that these systemic insecticides are harmful to bees, <b>EPA is actually proposing to <i>expand</i> the use of two such bee-toxic pesticides</b> - thiamethoxam and sulfoxaflor. </span><br />
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<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hk40M4TE1B%2FbfR%2B1DaWdEeAnTW11sVBc"><u><b><span style="font-size: small;">When will EPA get the message that enough is enough?  Bee-toxic pesticides are already used on over a hundred crops – and now EPA wants to approve more uses of these chemicals?</span></b></u></a><span style="font-size: small;"> <br />
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Unlike the U.S., <b>the European Union has already suspended the use of thiamethoxam</b> for its potential to harm honeybees. In the U.S., Center for Food Safety has sued the EPA to suspend the use of thiamethoxam [1], and some of the nation’s largest beekeeping associations have sued the EPA and Dow Chemical to remove sulfoxaflor from the market; in fact, <b>even EPA admitted that sulfoxaflor  is “very highly toxic” to bees</b> [2]. <br />
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<p><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: smaller;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>EPA has dug itself into a dangerous hole, but instead of putting the shovel down, they seem intent on continuing to dig.</b> Beekeepers across the country continue to report record-high bee kills. Recently, over 80,000 bee hives were decimated in California almond orchards, and again the damage was linked to bee-toxic chemicals [3].  And <b>it’s not just honey bees suffering – native bees like bumblebees are also dying</b> as a result of pesticide poisoning.  Nearly one year ago, the largest bumblebee kill ever recorded took place in Oregon after a pesticide application in a Target parking lot [4].<br />
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<b>The EPA has a public comment period open until May 27th</b> – meaning we have less than one week left to make our voices heard.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">For more information:<br />
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[1] <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JpHqJboodtMgxufSSi%2FlG%2BAnTW11sVBc">http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/1911/cfs-beekeepers-and-public-interest-groups-sue-epa-over-bee-toxic-pesticides</a><br />
[2] <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tOs%2B7%2BWZWlojImtJtmZ5IeAnTW11sVBc">http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/304/pollinators-and-pesticides/press-releases/2781/center-for-food-safety-joins-fight-against-newest-bee-killer-sulfoxaflor</a><br />
[3] <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vmA5Mygg4FcwRz9ij63QV%2BAnTW11sVBc">http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/19/6338235/beekeepers-search-for-answers.html</a><br />
[4] <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RA5ETHbBU17q%2Fd0cTZwmKeAnTW11sVBc">http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/06/pesticide_confirmed_in_bee_dea.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=i%2FefKp0ASbpPyJCZZGyjyOAnTW11sVBc">CFS Pollinators & Pesticides fact sheet, April 2013</a>  <br />
CFS report – <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FSkC8VppXM3lSMs4gFpsW%2BAnTW11sVBc"><i>Heavy Costs: Weighing the Value of Neonicotinoid Insecticides in Agriculture</i></a>  <a href="http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hk40M4TE1B8NueVCvx3oP%2BAnTW11sVBc"></a></span></span></p>
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