EPA Floats Long-Awaited Plan For Assessing Pesticide Risks To Pollinators

摘要

EPA has released a document describing its long-awaited tiered approach for quantitatively estimating the risks that pesticides pose to pollinators, an approach that appears to embrace advice from expert panels on how to improve the agency's methods and could reduce environmentalists' concerns that the agency has failed to address pollinator risks. "While EPA has evaluated the potential risks of pesticides to other taxa using a point estimate based approach, it has historically only qualitatively described the potential hazard to bees," according to an EPA white paper that was posted to its public docket on Aug.