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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>A great way for EPA to help launch 2009 National Pollinator Week!
See June 22 E&E News below, plus the link to EPA’s new Pollinator
Protection web site:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a
href="http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/ecosystem/pollinator-protection.html">http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/ecosystem/pollinator-protection.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>The new site contains a wealth of information, including
the agency’s new Pollinator Protection Strategic Plan.<o:p></o:p></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>R. Thomas (Tom) Van Arsdall, Director of Public Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> Pollinator Partnership<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> O-(540) 899-3023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> C-(703) 509-4746<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> <a href="mailto:tva@pollinator.org"><span style='color:blue'>tva@pollinator.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#666666;text-transform:uppercase'>An
E&E Publishing Service <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<h3 style='line-height:15.0pt'><span class=slg><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>AGRICULTURE:</span></span><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> EPA
launches team to investigate bee die-off </span><span
class=origin1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>(Monday,
June 22, 2009)</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h5 style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Sara Goodman, E&E reporter<o:p></o:p></span></h5>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>U.S. EPA
announced the formation today of a "pollinator protection team" to
determine the role of pesticides in the disappearance of honey bees to a
mysterious illness, colony collapse disorder.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>EPA and
the Agriculture Department have narrowed the potential causes of the disease
to six: new and re-emerging pathogens, pesticides, habitat loss, pests that
infest bee hives, commercial bee management practices and nutritional stress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The
agencies do not understand the importance of each factor and how to stop the
die-off, which began in 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>EPA said
it would begin by re-evaluating pesticide testing requirements.
Traditionally, pesticide manufacturers submit data on the short-term effects
of a chemical on individual bees, but the agency is reconsidering that
approach in favor of trying to gain a more complete picture of the different
ways pesticides might affect bees throughout their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The team
will examine current regulatory requirements and compare them to what is
known about toxic effects on honey bees, with an eye toward developing more
comprehensive testing protocols. It will also focus on risk management
approaches, EPA said, in an effort to mitigate potential risks, and encourage
international research collaboration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:11.25pt;margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:11.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The
honey bee industry is valued at more than $15 billion, with nearly 130
different crops dependent on pollination. Pollinators are responsible for the
reproduction of 75 percent of the world's flowering plants, most of which are
crop species. USDA estimates a third of the human diet comes from
insect-pollinated plants, and the honey bee is responsible for 80 percent of
that pollination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h4 style='margin-bottom:1.5pt;line-height:15.0pt'><i><span style='font-size:
10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#990000'>Want to read more
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