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Congress heeds call to action and introduces legislation as pressure mounts on White House Task Force to issue meaningful recommendations<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

March 4, 2015 (Washington, DC)\u201d\u201d<\/strong>A coalition of beekeepers, farmers, business leaders, environmental and food safety advocates rallied in front of the White House and delivered more than 4 million petition signatures today calling on the Obama administration to put forth strong protections for bees and other pollinators. This action anticipates the Pollinator Health Task Force recommendations, expected later this month. The task force, announced by the White House<\/a> this past June, is charged with improving pollinator health through new agency regulations and partnerships. The assembled groups demand that the recommendations include decisive action on rampant use of neonicotinoids, a class of systemic insecticides scientists<\/a> say are a driving factor in bee declines.<\/p>\n

The rally coincided with both a D.C. metro ad campaign<\/a> and Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and John Conyers\u2019s (D-MI) r\"savebeesnow\"<\/a>eintroduction of the Saving America\u2019s Pollinators Act<\/a>, which would suspend the use of four of the most toxic neonicotinoids until the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducts a full review of their safety.<\/p>\n

Representative Blumenauer, said, \u201cPollinators are not only vital to a sustainable environment, but key to a stable food supply. In fact, one out of every three bites of food we eat is from a crop pollinated by bees. It is imperative that we take a step back to make sure we understand all the factors involved in bee population decline and move swiftly to protect our pollinators.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EPA plans to wait until 2018 before reviewing the registration of neonicotinoids. \u00a0 But America\u2019s bees cannot wait three more years. \u00a0 Neither can the thousands of farmers that rely on pollinators,\u201d said Representative Conyers. \u00a0\u201cOur honeybees are critical to ecological sustainability and to our economy. \u00a0 \u00a0I am urging all of my colleagues to please protect our pollinators and support the Saving America\u2019s Pollinators Act.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s beekeepers cannot easily survive in the toxic environment the EPA has supported,\u201d said Roger Williams, president of the Central Maryland Beekeepers Association, and a speaker at today\u2019s rally. \u201cOn top of many other stresses, bee-toxic pesticides, whether used to coat seeds or as sprays, are weakening and killing our bees and threatening the livelihood of the beekeepers who are so intimately tied to our nation’s food supply.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a letter<\/a> on Monday, more than 125 conservation, beekeeping, food safety, religious, ethnic and farming advocacy groups urged President Obama and the EPA to take swift and meaningful action to address the impacts of toxic pesticides on pollinator species. The European Union passed a two-year moratorium on three of the most widely used neonicotinoids, yet the EPA has approached the issue with little urgency.<\/p>\n

\u201cBusiness leaders nationally recognize the importance of pollinators to the well-being of the economy, people, and ecosystems,\u201d said Fran Teplitz, Co-Executive Director, Green Business Network and Bryan McGannon, Deputy Director, American Sustainable Business Council. \u201cBusinesses committed to sustainability support strong federal action to protect pollinators from pesticides linked to their decline; now is the time to act.\u201d<\/p>\n

While advocates remain hopeful, they also made it clear that voluntary, enforceable proposals from the task force are unacceptable. Federal agencies have hinted at continued efforts to promote more of the same — voluntary farming management practices, insignificant pesticide label changes, and weak state pollinator plans. And advocates contend that without new, meaningful protections, the Task Force may actually do more harm than good.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven \u00a0the \u00a0historic decline in the population of pollinators \u201d\u201d bees, butterflies and birds \u201d\u201d it is critical that the President and \u00a0White House Task Force show forceful leadership in addressing \u00a0all factors contributing to the crisis, with \u00a0the suspension of neonicotinoid insecticides being a critically necessary action,\u201d said Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides and who spoke at today\u2019s rally.<\/p>\n

Neonicotinoids are a class of pesticides known to have acute and chronic effects on honey bees and other pollinator species and are considered a major factor in overall population declines. A growing body of independent science links a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids to bee declines, both alone and in combination with other factors like disease and malnutrition. Twenty-nine independent scientists conducted a global review of 1,121 independent studies and found overwhelming evidence of pesticides linked to bee declines. Neonicotinoids are also slow to break down, causing them to build up in the environment<\/a> and endangering a whole range of beneficial species<\/a> that inhabit these ecosystems.<\/p>\n

The 4 million signatures were collected by Avaaz, Beyond Pesticides, the Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, CREDO, Earthjustice, Environment America, Food and Water Watch, Food Democracy Now!, Friends of the Earth U.S., Green America, MoveOn, Organic Consumers Association, Pesticide Action Network, Save Our Environment, TakePart, and Toxic Free North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Media Contacts:<\/strong>
\nAbigail Seiler, Center for Food Safety, 202-547-9359, aseiler@centerforfoodsafety.org<\/a>
\nKate Colwell, Friends of the Earth, 202-222-0744, kcolwell@foe.org<\/a>
\nPaul Towers, Pesticide Action Network, 916.588.3100, ptowers@panna.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Expert Contacts:<\/strong>
\nBryan McGannon, American Sustainable Business Council, 202-650-7678, bmcgannon@asbcouncil.org<\/a>,
\nFran Teplitz, Green America, 202-872-5326<\/a>, fteplitz@greenamerica.org<\/a>
\nRoger Williams, Central Maryland Beekeepers Association, 802-355-9933, rogerw@nordlink.com<\/a>
\nJay Feldman, Beyond Pesticides, 202-543-5450, jfeldman@beyondpesticides.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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