Press Releases and Media
- Massachusetts Attorney General Stops Deceptive Safety Claims about Bee-Toxic Pesticides, Beyond Pesticides Urges Other States to Follow (October 26, 2017)
- Beyond Pesticides Report Documents Threats to Aquatic Life, Calls for Phase-Out of Neonicotinoid Use (April 14, 2017)
- Environmental Groups Call on Amazon, to Remove Pollinator-Toxic Products from Website (March 30, 2017)
- Beyond Pesticides: USDA Aligns with Chemical Industry for Pollinator Festival, Disinvites Environmentalists (June 23, 2016)
- Local Restaurants Launch Campaign to Protect Pollinators during National Pollinator Week (June 13, 2016)
- Beyond Pesticides Takes on Pollinator Decline, Pesticide Use, Genetic Engineered Crops, Chemical Industry Deception, Future Actions to Protect Health at Nader Conference in DC (May 20, 2016)
- EPA Data Confirms Honey Bee Exposure to Hazardous Pesticides, According to Beyond Pesticides (January 6, 2016)
- White House Plan Does Little to Take the Sting Out of Pollinator Declines, According to Beyond Pesticides (May 19, 2015)
- As EPA Approves Emergency Use of Bee-Killing Pesticide for Florida Citrus, Group Urges Heightened Efforts to Stop Toxic Pesticide Dependency (February 25, 2015)
- EPA Finds Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments to Be of Little or No Benefit (October 17, 2014) : The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a report yesterday that neonicotinoid seed treatments in soybean production provide little or no overall benefits in controlling insects, improving yield or quality in agriculture.
- Groups Challege California's Approval of Bee-Killing Pesticides (July 8, 2014): Today, environmental and food safety groups challenged California’s illegal practice of approving new agricultural uses for neonicotinoid pesticides despite mounting evidence that the pesticides are devastating honeybees.
- Presidential memorandum Acknowledges Pollinator Declines and Mandates Federal Action: EPA Fails to Restrict Pesticides Linked to Bee Decline (June 20, 2014): The White House today issued a Presidential Memorandum on pollinator health to the heads of federal agencies requiring action to "reverse pollinator losses and help restore populations to healthy levels."
- BEE Protective! Beyond Pesticides Installs Honey Bee Hive at DC Headquarters (May 6, 2014): With pollinator week a little over a month away, Beyond Pesticides is thrilled to announce that it’s amplifying its own footprint in the BEE Protective campaign by installing an urban honey bee hive at its national headquarters in southeast Washington, D.C.!
- Half a Million Demand Action from EPA to Save Bees (March 20, 2014): Today, more than half a million signatures were delivered to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, urging the nation's top-ranking environmental leader to protect bees and other pollinators.
- Advocates Urge California Officials to "Show Bees Some Love" (February 18, 2014): On Valentine’s Day, Beyond Pesticides, Pesticide Action Network, and Center for Food Safety, represented by Earthjustice, submitted detailed comments to state officials urging them to stop approving pesticides linked to bee declines.
- Broad Coalition is Building Buzz on Pollinator Decline with National Ad Campaign (December 2, 2013): Today, Beyond Pesticides, Center for Food Safety and Pesticide Action Network, supported by Ceres Trust and joined by more than 60 other organizations, launched a national media campaign to bring attention to the severity of pollinator declines due in part to the use of bee-harming pesticides.
- BEE DIE-OFFS: New tests find bee-killing pesticides in 'bee-friendly' plants from garden centers nationwide(August 13, 2013): Many "bee friendly home garden plants sold at Home Depot (NYSE:HD), and Lowe's (NYSE:LOW) and other leading garden centers have been pre-treated with pesticides shown not harm and kill bees, according to a new, first-of-its-kind pilot study released today by Friends of the Earth-US and allies.
- Groups Appeal to President Obama to Suspend Bee-Killing Pesticides(July 3, 2013): In light of recent action in Europe to suspend to use of certain neonicotinoid pesticides, Beyond Pesticides joined 12 other environmental and advocacy organizations in urging the Obama administration to direct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to follow the European Union’s (EU) lead in recognizing that risks posed by these pesticides are unacceptably high, and suspend the use of these chemicals in the U.S. to protect pollinators and the nation’s agricultural economy.
- Read the letter to President Obama.
- Beyond Pesticides Applauds EU for Protecting Bees, Asks EPA to Take Urgent Action (April 29, 2013): After months of debate, the European Union (EU) voted today to take the precautionary approach and restrict the pesticides associated with bee decline, despite a split among EU states.
- Groups Call for the Protection of Honey Bees on Earth Day (April 19, 2013): With honey bees suffering a devastating decline as high as 90 percent as Earth Day approaches, national environmental groups, Beyond Pesticides and Center for Food Safety, launch a campaign called BEE Protective to support nationwide local action aimed at protecting honey bees and other pollinators from pesticides.
- Beekeepers and Public Interest Groups Sue EPA Over Bee-Toxic Pesticides (March 21, 2013): Today, a year after groups formally petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, four beekeepers and five environmental and consumer groups filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court against the agency for its failure to protect pollinators from dangerous pesticides.
- Groups Say It's Time to ban Bee-Killing Pesticide as European Authority Finds Danger Unacceptable(January 16, 2013): The European Food Safety Authority today presented its report which finds that the neonicotinoid class of insecticides poses unacceptable hazards to bees.
- Read the European Food Safety Authority's report on neonicotinoid pesticides.
- Beekeepers and Environmentalists Petition EPA to Stop Pesticides Linked to Bee Deaths (March 20, 2012): Today commercial beekeepers and environmental organizations filed an emergency legal petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to suspend the use of a pesticide that is linked to honey bee deaths, urging the agency to adopt safeguards. The legal petition, which specifies the pesticide clothianidin, is supported by over one million citizen petition signatures, targets the pesticide for its harmful impacts on honey bees.
- Read the coalition's Emergency Legal Petition to EPA.
- Update: Beyond Pesticides' Eating with a Conscience Database now includes information on pollinators! Click through the crops to find out which ones are dependent on or foraged by pollinators, see which chemicals are toxic to bees, and learn about the importance of going organic.
- Video: Link TV/ Earth Focus interviews Beyond Pesticides' Executive Director Jay Feldman on pesticides and the decline of bee populations.
- NBC Nightly News: Bee Deaths Linked to Pesticides
- Listen: Beekeeper Tom Theobald and others talk to The Organic View about systemic pesticides and GMOs on public lands
- Film: Vanishing of the Bees, narrated by Ellen Page
- See: Bee experts' responses to Bayer's critique of recent studies:
- Read: Articles from Beyond Pesticides Newsletter, Pesticides and You:
- View: Center for Food Safety's Pollinators and Pesticides page, and list of neonicotinoid pesticides to avoid.
- Report: Global Bee Colony Disorders and other Threats to Insect Pollinators, United Nations, 2011
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