TBOUGBTS ON EPA

摘要

Beekeepers have lobbied for years for change, but had pretty much given up, and given in. CCD reopened this door, as has new leadership at EPA. Thad Box, a columnist for The Western Farmer Stockman speaks to the problem. And finally, the EPA is responding. The scrutiny that agricultural pesticides have received of late due to the unconventional problems beekeepers have been experiencing for the last three years has reached epic proportions. Finally. The Environmental Protection Agency is charged withadministering those compounds, their applications, and those that apply them. EPA absconded from this responsibility years ago, leaving the oversight in the hands of individual state Departments of Agriculture. EPA is also charged with securing adequate testing of new compounds to assure users they are safe and effective. This, too, has been handed over to the money-changers in the temple — the very organizations that produce and sell these products.