Groups sue EPA over honeybee deaths, blame some insecticides
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 17:00
in Mathematics & Economics
By Carey Gillam, ReutersU.S. environmental regulators are failing to protect honeybees and their role in pollinating important food crops, and should immediately suspend use of some toxic insecticides tied to the widespread deaths of the bees, a lawsuit filed on Thursday charges."It is a catastrophe in progress," said migratory beekeeper Steve Ellis who maintains 2,000 bee hives for pollinating cr...