Green Options » bee collapse http://greenoptions.com/tag/bee-collapse Posts tagged 'bee collapse' Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:26:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en EPA Covers-Up Pesticide’s Role in Bee Colony Collapse: NRDC Sues http://ecoscraps.com/2008/08/28/epa-covers-up-pesticides-role-in-bee-colony-collapse-nrdc-sues/ http://ecoscraps.com/2008/08/28/epa-covers-up-pesticides-role-in-bee-colony-collapse-nrdc-sues/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:26:29 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://ecoscraps.com/2008/08/28/epa-covers-up-pesticides-role-in-bee-colony-collapse-nrdc-sues/ bee on flower30-90 percent of bee colonies have been dying over the past two years.   Europeans are banning the pesticide clothianidin to protect their bee populations from “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD), yet the FDA, which approved the pesticide in 2003, refuses to release public documents of studies conducted by clothianidin’s maker Bayer CropScience on the chemical’s impact on bees and the environment.  Last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council filed suit against the FDA in order to release these documents and save the bees.

Via:  Organic Consumers Association

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