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Pesticide, EPA faulted in bee die-off.</a></b> Beekeepers from Minnesota
and across the country this month asked the federal government for a
temporary ban on one the most widely used pesticides until its effect on
bees is clear, arguing that the EPA failed to require some legally
mandated field testing before the pesticide was approved in 2003.
<a href="http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/86563/42231/11523/0/">
Minneapolis Star Tribune</a>, Minnesota. <br>
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A Florida beekeeper knows why bees are dying and colonies are
collapsing.</a></b> Scientists, farmers and chemical companies did not
listen when David Hackenberg said colony collapse disorder might not
really be so mysterious, that it was almost certainly caused by a
relatively new class of pesticides. And now, it seems, people are finally
paying attention.
<a href="http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/86563/42231/12414/0/">
Tampa Bay Times</a>, Florida. <br>
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UK government to reconsider nerve agent pesticides.</a></b> The
Government is to reconsider its refusal to ban neonicotinoid pesticides,
the nerve-agent chemicals blamed for the collapse of bee colonies
worldwide, the chief scientist at the Department of the Environment, Sir
Robert Watson, told The Independent.
<a href="http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/86563/42231/11409/0/">
London Independent</a>, United Kingdom. <br>
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