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EPA Approves Bee-Killing Pesticide After U.S. Quits Tracking Vanishing Hives

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sulfoxaflor-epa-honeybee-colonies-usda-data-200-million-acres_n_5d2bf580e4b0060b11eeb5f1

The EPA’s action could be catastrophic for honeybees, environmentalists said. Honeybee colonies, which pollinate a third of all the crops Americans consume, have plummeted from 6 million in 1947 to 2.4 million in 2008. But data tracking the already beleaguered colonies in an annual Honey Bee Colonies survey— and the future consequences from the EPA action — will no longer be collected by the USDA due to undisclosed budget restraints, the department announced this month. Meanwhile, the USDA is arranging some $27 billion for two years of extra subsidies to farmers to cushion the blow of Trump’s trade war with China.

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