Sign our petition re: bee-killing pesticides

The EPA just approved use of a bee-killing pesticide.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

The bees are in trouble. The number of honeybee hives in the U.S. fell from 6 million to just 2.4 million in 60 years, with 2018 being the worst year on record for hive loss.¹ But the EPA just approved a bee-killing pesticide for use in 11 states.

Sign this petition demanding the EPA reverse its approval for "emergency" use of the bee-killing pesticide sulfoxaflor and help protect the bees.

The collapse of honeybee colonies can be attributed in large part to increased use of pesticides for agricultural crops. Sulfoxaflor is a bee-killing pesticide that was banned in 2015 because it was killing so many bees, but under the Trump administration, it's being used again.²

We depend on honeybees to pollinate our crops and to provide a great deal of the food on tables across America. The EPA is supposed to protect the health of our environment, but it's falling down on the job. We need to call on the EPA to reverse its decision to allow the use of this bee-killing pesticide immediately.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Lisa Yee-Litzenberg

Sources:

1. "EPA Approves Bee-Killing Pesticide After U.S. Quits Tracking Vanishing Hives," HuffPost, July 15, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/68173?t=9&akid=239457%2E10220574%2EeZ0gir

2. Ibid.

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