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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, June 24, 2019) During \u201cPollinator Week,\u201d last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency betrayed its responsibility to protect the environment and approved \u201cemergency\u201d uses of sulfoxaflor, a bee-toxic insecticide, in 11 states on millions of acres of crops that are attractive to bees. Sulfoxaflor is functionally identical to the neonicotinoid class of\u00a0systemic pesticides<\/a>, which are readily absorbed and translocated into the plant tissues, including its pollen and nectar. These insecticides are substantial contributors to the dramatic decline of pollinators and what is now recognized as a\u00a0global insect apocalypse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ask Your Elected Members of Congress to Tell EPA that Its Actions Are Unacceptable and Must Be Reversed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In 2015,\u00a0beekeepers sued<\/a>\u00a0to suspend the use of sulfoxaflor. A year later, in 2016, the chemical’s registration was amended with the specific exclusion of crops such as cotton and sorghum that attract bees, essentially acting as an aromatic draw to poison. However, EPA regularly utilizes the \u201cemergency exemption\u201d rule under Section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to circumvent these restrictions.<\/p>\n

The Center for Biological Diversity reports<\/a>, \u201cTen of the 11 states have been granted the approvals for at least four consecutive years for the same ’emergency.’ Five have been given approvals for at least six consecutive years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has recognized the broad misuse of Section 18. A 2018 report from OIG notes that EPA \u201cdoes not have outcome measures in place to determine how well the emergency exemption process maintains human health and environmental safeguards.\u201d Section 18 is intended to be utilized for unanticipated, urgent, and short-lived pest situations. Instead, it is harnessed as an effective, chronic workaround to introduce a pesticide on the market without FIFRA registration and appropriate restrictions on use.<\/p>\n

Ask Your Elected Members of Congress to Tell EPA that Its Actions Are Unacceptable and Must Be Reversed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

We cannot allow those we elect to Congress to remain silent as the crisis of the \u201cinsect apocalypse\u201d advances at an escalating rate.<\/p>\n

Letter to Congress<\/em><\/p>\n

As our nation last week recognized \u201cPollinator Week\u201d\u2014a collective effort to focus on creatures vital to our environment and food systems\u2014EPA was approving the use of the systemic pollinator poison sulfoxaflor that the court had previously decided was too dangerous for bees. I ask you to tell EPA that its decision to allow the \u201cemergency use\u201d of bee-toxic pesticides is unacceptable and contributes to the escalating insect apocalypse, as documented in the scientific literature. The EPA\u2019s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has recognized the broad misuse of Section 18. A 2018 report from OIG notes that EPA \u201cdoes not have outcome measures in place to determine how well the emergency exemption process maintains human health and environmental safeguards.\u201d Section 18 is intended to be utilized for unanticipated, urgent, and short-lived pest situations. Instead, it is harnessed as an effective, chronic workaround to introduce a pesticide on the market without FIFRA registration and appropriate restrictions on use.<\/p>\n

Thus, it is not surprising that, as reported by the Center for Biological Diversity, \u201cTen of the 11 states have been granted the approvals for at least four consecutive years for the same \u2018emergency.\u2019 Five have been given approvals for at least six consecutive years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Congressional oversight is needed to ensure that EPA fulfills its responsibility to completely review the health and environmental impacts of pesticides before allowing them to be used.<\/p>\n

Please tell EPA that its decision to allow the \u201cemergency use\u201d of bee-toxic pesticides is unacceptable and must be rescinded.<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

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A year later, in 2016, the chemical’s registration was amended with the specific exclusion of crops such as cotton and sorghum that attract bees, essentially acting as an aromatic draw to poison. However, EPA regularly utilizes the \u201cemergency exemption\u201d rule under Section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to circumvent these restrictions. The Center for Biological Diversity reports, \u201cTen of the 11 states have been granted the approvals for at least four consecutive years for the same ’emergency.’ Five have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,93,322,276,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-protection-agency-epa","category-pollinators","category-sulfoxaflor","category-take-action","category-uncategorized","category-wildlifeenvironment"],"yoast_head":"\nAsk Congress to Stop EPA Actions that Threaten Bees - 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\/2019\/06\/ask-congress-to-stop-epa-actions-that-threaten-bees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ask Congress to Stop EPA Actions that Threaten Bees - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Beyond Pesticides, June 24, 2019) During \u201cPollinator Week,\u201d last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency betrayed its responsibility to protect the environment and approved \u201cemergency\u201d uses of sulfoxaflor, a bee-toxic insecticide, in 11 states on millions of acres of crops that are attractive to bees. 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