[Pollinator] EPA petition for better assessment of pesticide risks to pollinators

[Isis Howard]

Earthjustice and the Xerces Society press release of a petition submitted
today to EPA to swiftly correct flaws in its framework for assessing
pesticide risks to pollinators. Currently, the EPA only requires pesticide
manufacturers to submit limited data concerning pesticide impacts on adult
honey bees. The result is that the EPA vastly underestimates the toll of
pesticides on critical pollinator populations, including monarchs.

Read more:
https://xerces.org/press/pollinators-increasingly-disappearing-from-pesticide-overuse-and-lax-oversight

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Isis Howard (she/her)
Conservation Biologist
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
503.212.0546 | isis.howard at xerces.org

xerces.org <https://www.xerces.org/>
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