The EPA will let farmers resume broad use of the pesticide sulfoxaflor despite beekeepers’ objections.
The Environmental Protection Agency will let farmers resume broad use of a pesticide over beekeepers’ objections, citing private chemical industry studies that the agency says show the product does only lower-level harm to bees and wildlife.
Emails and other records obtained from the EPA through Freedom of Information Act litigation by the Sierra Club, and provided to the Associated Press, show sorghum growers in particular had pressed senior officials at the agency for a return to broad use of sulfoxaflor. Dunn said the EPA’s newly reset rules for use of sulfoxaflor — such as generally prohibiting spraying of fruit- and nut-bearing plants in bloom, when pollinators would be attracted to the flowers — would limit harm to bees. She called it “an important and highly effective tool for growers.”
An environmental group accused the EPA of sidestepping the usual public review in reapproving broader use of the pesticide.
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