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vertical-align: baseline;">Neonicotinoid bill held up by busy
agenda</h1>
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datetime="2019-10-16 16:02:46 -0400">Published: Wednesday,
October 16, 2019</time> </section>
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bee collecting pollen from purple prairie clover. Photo
credit: Tom Koerner/USFW "
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0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Studies have linked neonicotinoids to harms in
bee colonies. A House bill would limit their use until EPA
finds they won't adversely affect pollinators. <span
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vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Koerner/Fish and Wildlife
Service</span></p>
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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Rep. Earl Blumenauer said today he's looking for a
lull in the congressional agenda before pressing legislation
to limit the use of certain pesticides that may harm bees.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">"Part of it is just wait for things to calm down a
little bit," the Oregon Democrat told E&E News, describing
the outlook for his bill, <a
href="https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr1337/BILLS-116hr1337ih.pdf"
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1337</a>, the "Saving America's Pollinators Act."</p>
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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Blumenauer's bill would require EPA to cancel the
registration of neonicotinoid pesticides until the agency
finds the chemicals won't cause adverse effects to
pollinators. It would require EPA to create a Pollinator
Protection Board, which would review pesticides potentially
harmful to bees and butterflies.</p>
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0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) speaking today at
an event on neonicotinoids. <span class="credit"
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outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom:
0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top:
0px; vertical-align: baseline;">@foe_us/Twitter</span></p>
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baseline;">EPA allows the use of eight neonicotinoids,
including imidacloprid and clothianidin, on various crops. The
chemicals were introduced in the 1990s and have become
popular, including as seed treatments, because they're
absorbed throughout the plant and are less toxic to vertebrate
animals than other pesticides.</p>
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baseline;">But they tend to persist in soil — sometimes for
years — and they're prone to escape planted fields, critics
said yesterday at a panel discussion on Capitol Hill.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">Neonicotinoids' potential role in bee declines is
hotly debated. While most lab studies have found they can be
harmful to honeybees, most field studies have found limited or
no effects, according to the Cornell University College of
Agriculture and Life Sciences.</p>
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baseline;">They're the most widely used pesticides in the
world and the most studied insecticides for effects on bees,
according to Cornell's Pollinator Network.</p>
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baseline;">Neonicotinoids are also used on national wildlife
refuges; the Center for Food Safety and the Center for
Biological Diversity have sued the Trump administration to
stop the practice.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">Blumenauer's bill has 69 co-sponsors, all
Democrats. He said at the panel discussion that the
legislation ought to have bipartisan support and is a "half
step" toward ending use of neonicotinoids — depending on the
proposed EPA panel's conclusions. House Rules Chairman Jim
McGovern (D-Mass.) is the chief co-sponsor, giving the bill an
influential ally.</p>
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baseline;">The packed congressional schedule, including the
impeachment inquiry, may need to ease before the pollinator
bill can move.</p>
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be a little thing that might fill that gap," Blumenauer said.</p>
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