[Pollinator] EPA delays neonicotinoid reiew

[David Inouye]

  EPA Quietly Delays Reviews for Bee-Harming Pesticides

Posted Aug. 17, 2018, 9:35 AM

  * EPA changes completion date from 2018 to 2019 on webpage
  * Pesticides developed by Bayer, Syngenta, Mitsui

The EPA is pushing its deadline for reviewing a set of insecticides 
linked to declining bee populations to next year.

Environmental assessments for neonicotinoid pesticides won’t be 
completed until 2019. The Environmental Protection Agency quietly posted 
the change on its pesticides webpage 
<https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/schedule-review-neonicotinoid-pesticides> 
without comment. The assessments, which would provide the scientific 
basis for further restricting neonicotinoids, were previously set to be 
released this year.

-- 
Dr. David W. Inouye
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4415
inouye at umd.edu

Principal Investigator
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
PO Box 519
Crested Butte, CO 81224

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