Laurel says this initiative is a feel-good thing. I agree.--Tom Mathews

 

 

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From: Laurel Hopwood <[log in to unmask]>
To: CONS-SPST-BIOTECH-FORUM <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sat, Jun 21, 2014 12:26 pm
Subject: White House task force charged with saving bees from mysterious decline



http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/20/bees-die-off-mystery-white-house-plan-save
White House task force charged with saving bees from mysteriousdecline
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Barack Obama is taking steps save honey beesfrom the die-off, ordering new research into the pesticides linked tothe pollinators' collapse.


The presidential memorandum released by theWhite House charges a new task force with producing a strategy to stopthe alarming decline of honeybees, butterflies and other pollinators.The memorandum also for the first time directs the EPA to carry outresearch into the role of a new class of pesticides, neonicotinoids,that have been linked with the collapse of the honeybees.


However, Obama stopped short of a ban onneonicotinoids, as the European Union has done.


The Center for Food Safety in its responsesaid: "There is already a wealth of peer reviewed literaturedemonstrating the harms of pesticides to bees and otherpollinators."


laurel writes: The evidence is in about theneonic link with the honeybee demise. Too bad the President bowed downto big ag and failed to follow the EU lead. This is a feel goodthing.


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