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Court rips EPA for approving Dow insecticide linked to honeybee deaths
The Washington Examiner ^
| September 11, 2015
| Paul Bedard
Posted on 09/12/2015 8:04:06 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A federal appeals court this week assailed the Environmental Protection Agency for approving a Dow AgroSciences insecticide linked to honeybee deaths, charging that the agency's action was based on flawed and inadequate data.
The decision by a three judge panel in San Francisco was a huge win for beekeepers who have argued that the new type of insecticide targeted in the case one of the causes of "Colony Collapse Disorder" blamed for the deaths of millions of hives.
It was a huge blow to Dow, which touted its pesticide Sulfoxaflor to investors. The company's stock took a hit on Wall Street today.
And the EPA also was smacked for approving the chemical that is part of a family of pesticides called neonicotinoids before it had fully tested the impact.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bees; colonycollapse; dow; dowagrosciences; dowchemical; epa; insecticide; neonicotinoids; nicotinoids; sulfoxaflor
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
EPA is another captive agency, just like the FDA.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Wow, EPA slapped down for being insufficiently power mad. What do you want to be they sued themselves? How will we be able to live with them now?
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:07:23 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!Just read)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
McCarthy has been screwing up by the numbers since taking over the envirolunatic asylum.
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:09:01 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Liberals keep looking for ways to be offended. I keep looking for ways to offend them.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
EPA- always on the wrong side of any situation unless there’s money to be made by democRATs in positions of power.
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:11:24 PM PDT
by
Rockitz
(This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
charging that the agency's action was based on flawed and inadequate dataWhen, in recent decades, has the EPA not made a decision based on flawed and inadequate data?
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:15:14 PM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Zeppo
thank you!
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:18:13 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The EPA “assailed” for killing bees; silence on Planned Parenthood killing human beings and selling the body parts.
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:21:52 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Linked in what what?
Come to find out the die-off wasn’t as pronounced as it was at first thought, and this sort of thing has taken place regularly before.
Here we go with another idiotic “cause” when there was no harm no foul.
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:22:46 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
EPA bureaucrats with no right to do so banned an over the counter asthma medication I made use of. I’d like to see them all drawn and quartered.
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:23:49 PM PDT
by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: Impy
I feel great sympathy for asthma sufferers because of that asthma medication being banned.
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:32:37 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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09/12/2015 8:32:38 PM PDT
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DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
To: libertylover; Slings and Arrows
The EPA “assailed” for killing bees; silence on Planned Parenthood killing human beings and selling the body parts.DRINK!
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:40:52 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: Impy
Just make sure it’s done in public.
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:41:34 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: DoughtyOne
I just figured that Obama’s EPA was refusing to ban the insecticides so that we’d have less food, due to bee die-offs. That’ll teach me to wear the tinfoil.
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posted on
09/12/2015 8:46:49 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ever been stung by a dead bee?
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Most of these “big scares” are meant to herd us.
I fall for it too. It’s best to listen to other opinions on some of these things.
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posted on
09/12/2015 9:06:59 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
09/12/2015 9:11:38 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
09/12/2015 9:15:36 PM PDT
by
Guenevere
(If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
CRONY-Capitalists at Work.. mean-green..
WHich crony is running for President?..
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posted on
09/12/2015 9:16:22 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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