White House task force charged with saving bees from mysterious
decline
(edited)
Barack Obama is taking steps save honey bees
from the die-off, ordering new research into the pesticides linked to
the pollinators' collapse.
The presidential memorandum released by the
White House charges a new task force with producing a strategy to stop
the alarming decline of honeybees, butterflies and other pollinators.
The memorandum also for the first time directs the EPA to carry out
research 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 on
neonicotinoids, as the European Union has done.
The Center for Food Safety in its response
said: "There is already a wealth of peer reviewed literature
demonstrating the harms of pesticides to bees and other
pollinators."
laurel writes: The evidence is in about the
neonic link with the honeybee demise. Too bad the President bowed down
to big ag and failed to follow the EU lead. This is a feel good
thing.
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