Huge victory for bees! And the battle ahead.
Greg Loarie Earthjustice
Since I last wrote, we’ve received an outpouring of response. We know we’re at a point of crisis. Bee colonies are collapsing and scientists are pointing to toxic pesticides as a cause. Getting sulfoxaflor off the market was a great first step in protecting the bees. But there is more work to be done.
Thank you for all that you do,
Greg Loarie
Attorney
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Together, we’re fighting to stop a historic bee die-off! We just won a major victory—now help us take on the next battle! |
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We won!
Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the EPA’s approval of Dow AgroScience’s sulfoxaflor, a neonicotinoid pesticide shown to be highly toxic to bees. Because of this victory, sulfoxaflor will be coming off the market in the United States!
We’ve been asked to represent beekeepers in another case, taking on the neonicotinoids clothianidin and thiamethoxam, also shown to be highly toxic to bees.
But to take on this and other battles, we need your urgent support!
Takeda Chemical Industries and Bayer AG’s clothianidin, and Syngenta’s thiamethoxam, are powerful insecticides. Like all neonicotinoids, clothianidin and thiamethoxam are absorbed into the treated plant, rendering the plant itself—including its nectar and pollen—highly toxic to bees for weeks.
Miniscule doses of these pesticides can kill bees outright, and even doses that may not kill immediately impair bees’ ability to breed, forage, fight disease and survive the winter.
One-third of our diet comes from crops that require bees for pollination. This category of insecticides puts our entire food system at risk.
The law may be our only chance to stop these deadly pesticides once and for all. We just won a major victory for bees by reversing the approval of sufloxaflor.
Will you help us keep up this momentum to save bees and defend our natural world?
Scientific evidence continues to show widespread use of neonicotinoids is causing or contributing to an unprecedented die-off of honeybees and other pollinators worldwide. We can’t sit back while the bee crisis continues, threatening our food supply.
We’re already fighting in court to take on other bee-killing pesticides, like Valent U.S.A. Corporation’s Venom Insecticide and Mitsui Chemical Agro’s Dinotefuran 20SG.
Help us take on more battles—and win—with a special tax-deductible gift today!
Together we can stop a historic bee die-off…but we must act now!
Sincerely,
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P.S. We just won a huge victory for bees! But the battle is far from over. Help us take on more bee-killing pesticides in court and fight to protect the natural world! |