Save the bees EPA
Angus Wong, SumOfUs
Wow. A US court just ruled in favor of the bees: A Dow Chemical insecticide that kills bees should never have been approved.
This is a major victory for the bees, but not the end of our battle: The lawsuit focused on a subclass of so-called neonicotinoids -- dangerous chemicals known to be toxic for bees.
If we truly want to turn things around for the bees, we need the agency responsible for this fatal decision -- the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- to ban all bee-killing insecticides NOW.
Sign the petition to tell the Environmental Protection Agency to ban all bee-killing insecticides!
We’ve been fighting these deadly neonicotinoids for years -- but in the last couple of months we were shocked to learn the situation was even worse than we thought: neonicotinoids aren't just decimating bee colonies -- they're hurting birds too.
Evidence against the neurotoxins is piling up -- but huge corporations like Dow Chemicals and Bayer are stepping up their game as well: Just this summer Bayer’s lobbying efforts lead the UK government to suspend a EU-wide ban of neonics.
Now we have a unique opportunity to strike back and save the bees: The US court in its ruling found the EPA’s decision to allow deadly neonics relied on “flawed and limited data” -- casting huge doubts on the agency’s previous approvals of other neonicotinoids.
It’s time for the EPA to take its commitment to protect our environment seriously and ban dangerous insecticides -- until there is proof that it doesn't kill the bees and the birds.
SumOfUs have been right at the front of the global campaign to save our bees. We came together to fight Bayer at a huge independent garden store show in Chicago, where the German chemical maker was out in force. Tens of thousands from the SumOfUs community took action and got Lowe's -- one of the biggest garden retailers in the world -- to stop selling bee-killing insecticides.
Together we can turn things around for the bees, before it’s too late.
Thanks for all that you do,
Angus, Wiebke and the team at SumOfUs