Source: Chiara Giordano, THE INDEPENDENT, 9/8/19


Beekeepers are suing the Trump administration over its decision to allow the wider use of an insecticide linked to the deaths of entire honeybee colonies. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed restrictions on sulfoxaflor in July and approved a host of new uses for the chemical. According to environmental organisation Earthjustice, when honeybees return to their hives with pollen and nectar tainted with sulfoxaflor “the effect on the entire colony can be catastrophic”.

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