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-ms-grid-column-span: 19; -ms-grid-row: 2;">EPA Quietly Delays
Reviews for Bee-Harming Pesticides</h1>
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EPA is pushing its deadline for reviewing a set of
insecticides linked to declining bee populations to next
year. </p>
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line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px;">Environmental
assessments for neonicotinoid pesticides won’t be completed
until 2019. The Environmental Protection Agency quietly
posted the change on its pesticides <a
href="https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/schedule-review-neonicotinoid-pesticides"
style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(38, 122, 189);
text-decoration: none;">webpage</a> without comment. The
assessments, which would provide the scientific basis for
further restricting neonicotinoids, were previously set to
be released this year.</p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Dr. David W. Inouye
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4415
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:inouye@umd.edu">inouye@umd.edu</a>
Principal Investigator
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
PO Box 519
Crested Butte, CO 81224</pre>
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