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bee-killing chemical offers ammo for policy fight</h1>
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News reporter</span><time style="background-attachment:
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vertical-align: baseline;">Published: Wednesday, July 8, 2020</time></section>
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pesticides have been blamed for harming bee colonies. </span><span
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baseline;">A class of pesticides notorious for harming bees
does little to boost farmers' crop yields or profits — but
it's a form of crop insurance in case of insect outbreaks,
according to Cornell University researchers.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">The scientists examined the risks and benefits of
neonicotinoids, the nicotine-based insecticides that have
become hugely popular on farms since their introduction in the
United States in 1991.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Four of the chemicals are in final stages of
registration renewal at EPA, where officials have rejected
calls from environmental groups to ban their use. Instead, the
agency has imposed restrictions on their use, including label
instructions to limit when and where they're used to reduce
exposure to bees.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">In their 432-page <a
href="https://www.eenews.net/assets/2020/07/08/document_gw_15.pdf"
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the Cornell researchers didn't make policy recommendations but
delved deeply into neonics' use in New York, a major producer
of specialty crops as well as field corn used to feed dairy
cows. The results lend support to arguments on both sides of
the controversy around neonics.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">Researchers found that around 90% of field tests
showed no increase in corn yields from seeds treated with
neonics, compared with chemical alternatives or untreated
seed. Some 89% of field trials showed no increased yield
compared with plots where no insecticide was used.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">They found similar results with soybeans.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
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baseline;">"Nevertheless, neonicotinoid-treated seeds are used
by nearly all conventional field corn farmers and, likely, the
majority of soybean producers in New York," the study said.</p>
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baseline;">"In part, this is due to the insurance value of
neonicotinoid-treated seeds. Even if routine use of
neonicotinoid-treated seeds does not increase expected net
income, such preventative pest control products protect
growers against unpredictable, potentially severe, losses from
early-season pests."</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
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border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
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100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">It added, "Incentives and policies to reduce usage
of neonicotinoid-treated seeds may benefit from recognizing
their value as inexpensive crop insurance as well as a pest
management tool."</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Treated seeds cost farmers about $49 more per
hectare than nontreated seeds, researchers found.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">A senior scientist at the Center for Biological
Diversity, Nathan Donley, told E&E News that the Cornell
work stands out for examining independent, peer-reviewed
studies on the chemicals, rather than relying mainly on
industry studies that have weighed heavily in EPA's analyses.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
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border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">"That's probably why they are much more clear and
definitive about the major harms that neonics pose to
pollinators," Donley said. "EPA discounted nearly every single
independent study in the peer-reviewed literature in their
risk assessment, which is the main reason they are moving
forward with such a permissive approval."</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
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100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">A spokesman for the New York Farm Bureau, Steve
Ammerman, said pesticides aren't the only potential
contributor to the decline in pollinators.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">"The more information we have, the better we can
work to implement new strategies to benefit pollinators and
farmers," Ammerman said. "Neonics have been an important and
effective risk management tool to agriculture and were
developed to be safer alternatives than products used decades
ago."</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
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100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">The first neonic to hit the market was imidacloprid
in 1991. Since then, they have become some of the most widely
used pesticides in the world, constituting more than 25% of
the global pesticide market, according to the report. Farmers
use them mainly in treated seeds, which spread the chemical
throughout the plant — including into pollen and nectar that
bees collect.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
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100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
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padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Researchers said only 5% of corn acres in New York
were treated with other insecticides in 2018, and just 13% of
corn acres nationally, a testament to neonics' widespread use.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">In its proposed registration renewal for
imidacloprid released earlier this year, EPA recommended
reducing the amounts that can be applied annually to plants or
soil. Cornell researchers said the interim decision would
affect major New York crops such as apples and cabbage, in
which the state ranks in the top three nationally.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">The agency also issued interim registration
decisions for acetamiprid, clothianidin, dinotefuran and
thiamethoxam. EPA proposed no changes in some uses of
imidacloprid but noted the danger to pollinators from neonics
overall and proposed canceling imidacloprid's use as a spray
on turf to reduce risk to people, and use on bulb vegetables
to reduce risk to aquatic species from runoff.</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;">The agency turned away requests for wide new
restrictions on their use, such as an outright prohibition (<em
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href="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1062221105"
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Jan. 30).</p>
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114.28%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right:
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none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left:
0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Policy implications</h3>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Other findings in the Cornell study could play into
future policy decisions.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Although they found that the risk to bees varies
widely across landscapes — with very little risk in some
settings — the researchers called "particularly concerning"
the amount of neonicotinoids in soil, at levels known to be
toxic to ground-nesting bees.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Fifty-four percent of New York's 417 species of
bees nest in the ground, the study said.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">Donley said EPA hasn't fully addressed the risk to
ground-nesting bees, putting much of its focus on honeybees
that are raised commercially and are easier for experts to
track.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">In some cases, neonics appear to be the only
treatment that works on the insects in question, according to
the researchers.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">They said that's the case with the woolly adelgid,
an imported insect that's destroying eastern hemlock trees —
the third-most common tree in New York and an important
species to the state's timber industry. Infested trees nearly
always die, and the pesticide is injected into the tree in
ways that pose little harm to bees, the study said. Hemlocks
are pollinated by wind.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: currentColor;
border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px;
border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch;
border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none;
border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor;
border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px;
border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none;
border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor;
border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size:
100%; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;
margin-top: 1em; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none;
outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align:
baseline;">"Ending control of hemlock woolly adelgid with
neonicotinoids could have severe consequences for New York
forests," the researchers said.</p>
<p style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip:
border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image:
none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x:
0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat;
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of information about the risks and benefits of neonics used on
specialty crops.</p>
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baseline;">Climate change could affect the chemicals' use in
New York, the study said, but could mean either more or less
depending on how insects respond to wetter springs, drier
falls and warmer overall conditions.</p>
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baseline;">At the New York Farm Bureau, Ammerman said the
group is examining the findings and believes the state
Department of Environmental Conservation and EPA, not
lawmakers, should drive policies on neonics.</p>
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baseline;">"We do not support the banning of classifications
of pesticides by legislative bodies and believe that
regulatory agencies, like NYS DEC and the EPA, should be
making these decisions based on the science," Ammerman said.</p>
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