NY TIMES: Victory! US Courts takes bee killing Dow Insecticide off Market
Source US Courts takes bee killing Dow Insecticide off Market A United States appeals court ruled on Thursday that federal regulators erred in allowing an insecticide developed by Dow AgroSciences onto the market, canceling its approval and giving environmentalists a major victory. The ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, is significant for commercial beekeepers and others who say a decline in bee colonies needed to pollinate key food crops is tied to the widespread use of a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids. The lawsuit was filed in 2013 against...
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