{"id":20334,"date":"2017-03-30T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=20334"},"modified":"2017-03-30T09:02:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:02:34","slug":"environmental-groups-call-amazon-remove-pollinator-toxic-products-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2017\/03\/environmental-groups-call-amazon-remove-pollinator-toxic-products-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Groups Call on Amazon to Remove Pollinator-Toxic Products from Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, March 30, 2017) Over 30 environmental and public health groups, joined by several environmentally responsible businesses, sent <a href=\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/assets\/media\/documents\/Amazon%20Signon%20Letter%20Final.pdf\">a letter<\/a> today to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, urging him to remove products linked to pollinator declines from the retailer\u2019s website. Citing federal inertia that has allowed pollinator declines to continue at alarming rates, the groups pointed to the need for action from private companies to combat known threats to pollinators, in this case a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20339\" src=\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Amazon-Logo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Amazon-Logo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Amazon-Logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Amazon-Logo.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Neonicotinoid pesticides are found in many home and garden products, and have been determined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to be highly toxic to bees. According to the letter,\u00a0\u201cindependent scientific literature associates the use of bee-toxic pesticides, particularly neonicotinoids, with impaired pollinator health and decline, including reduced populations of native bees, butterflies and other beneficial organisms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The groups call on Amazon \u201cto use its influence as the largest online retailer in the U.S. to lead marketplace change and protect pollinators by prohibiting the sale of pollinator-toxic neonicotinoid pesticide products, educating consumers on the availability of safer, \u201cpollinator friendly\u201d alternatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This ask comes on the heels of last week\u2019s decision by the federal government to officially list the rusty patch bumblebee &#8211; the first ever bumblebee, and first bee overall in the continental U.S. &#8211; as an endangered species. Without swift and meaningful action by companies like Amazon, these environmental groups allege that the rusty patch bumblebee may be the \u201ccanary in the coalmine\u201d for larger and further reaching pollinator losses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s beekeepers continue to experience hive losses of up to 50%, losses that are unsustainable and are driving many beekeepers out of the industry,\u201d said Bonnie Raindrop, Legislative Chair of the Central Maryland Beekeepers Association. \u201cWe need healthy pollinators for one in three bites of food we eat, however many produce farmers are reporting compromised crop yields due to lack of pollination. The Big Ag and pesticide lobbies are too influential for us to count on the government to take appropriate action, so we are counting companies like Amazon to step up and lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Trump Administration set on dismantling the EPA, environmental groups and their supporters are turning to the private sector to lead the way on protecting pollinators and the countless ecosystem services they provide,\u201d asserted Jay Feldman, Executive Director of Beyond Pesticides, the organization that led the sign-on letter.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dan Raichel, Staff Attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), \u201cPutting an end to the bee crisis is going to take everyone\u2019s help.\u00a0 Amazon can be a big part of the solution by\u00a0ensuring that when their shoppers want to beautify their homes and gardens, they aren\u2019t buying products that harm bees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe marketplace is shifting. More than 65 garden retailers have made commitments to restrict the use of bee-killing pesticides on products and plants,\u201d said Tiffany Finck-Haynes, food futures campaigner at Friends of the Earth. \u201cIt\u2019s time for Amazon to step-up to the plate and follow other industry leaders by making a commitment to stop selling bee-killing pesticides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The groups say that removing neonicotinoid pesticide products from Amazon\u2019s website is imperative to protecting natural resources, specifically bees, butterflies and birds, as well as promoting water quality and soil health. By taking action, Amazon would be joining with other retail leaders, such as Home Depot and Lowe\u2019s, that have committed to stop selling neonicotinoid products and treated plants at their stores.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was accompanied by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/assets\/media\/documents\/Amazon%20Product%20List.pdf\">a product list<\/a>\u00a0identifying over 100 products sold on Amazon\u2019s website that contain bee-toxic neonicotinoid pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Pesticides maintains that private section action is necessary in light of the shortcomings of federal action in the U.S. to protect pollinators. People can pledge to stop using neonicotinoids and other toxic pesticides by signing the <a href=\"http:\/\/action.beyondpesticides.org\/o\/7106\/p\/salsa\/web\/common\/public\/signup?signup_page_KEY=7574\">pollinator protection pledge<\/a> today. Beyond Pesticides advocates the adoption of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/assets\/media\/documents\/lawn\/documents\/ModelPolicy.pdf\">organic land management practices<\/a> and policies by local communities that eliminate the use of toxic pesticides.<\/p>\n<p><em>All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, March 30, 2017) Over 30 environmental and public health groups, joined by several environmentally responsible businesses, sent a letter today to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, urging him to remove products linked to pollinator declines from the retailer\u2019s website. Citing federal inertia that has allowed pollinator declines to continue at alarming rates, the groups pointed to the need for action from private companies to combat known threats to pollinators, in this case a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids. Neonicotinoid pesticides are found in many home and garden products, and have been determined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to be highly toxic to bees. According to the letter,\u00a0\u201cindependent scientific literature associates the use of bee-toxic pesticides, particularly neonicotinoids, with impaired pollinator health and decline, including reduced populations of native bees, butterflies and other beneficial organisms.\u201d The groups call on Amazon \u201cto use its influence as the largest online retailer in the U.S. to lead marketplace change and protect pollinators by prohibiting the sale of pollinator-toxic neonicotinoid pesticide products, educating consumers on the availability of safer, \u201cpollinator friendly\u201d alternatives.\u201d This ask comes on the heels of last week\u2019s decision by the federal government to officially list the rusty patch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,328,93,276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-protection-agency-epa","category-neonicotinoids","category-pollinators","category-take-action"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Environmental Groups Call on Amazon to Remove Pollinator-Toxic Products from Website - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2017\/03\/environmental-groups-call-amazon-remove-pollinator-toxic-products-website\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Environmental Groups Call on Amazon to Remove Pollinator-Toxic Products from Website - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Beyond Pesticides, March 30, 2017) Over 30 environmental and public health groups, joined by several environmentally responsible businesses, sent a letter today to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, urging him to remove products linked to pollinator declines from the retailer\u2019s website. 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