Author Archives: Tom Theobald

This Briefing Paper from the Minnesota League of Women Voters is an excellent overview of many of the questions surrounding the the widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides. Take the time to read it in its entirety and it will help … Continue reading →

June Stoyer and I interviewed David Hackenberg about seed treatments on The Neonicotinoid View the day after his suit was filed against the EPA.

On January 6, 2016 several advocacy groups, farmers and beekeepers filed a law suit against the EPA for failure to properly register and regulate neonicotinmoids and other systemic pesticide seed coating. Here is the press release and a link to … Continue reading →

Watch this decision on sulfoxaflor closely. Sulfoxaflor raised the same unanswered questions as clothianidin, but because the EPA had come under criticism for its outrageous abuse of conditional registrations, once again they tried to do an end run around the … Continue reading →

Take the time to listen to this exceptional lecture I received from Graham White in Scotland. It is an hour long but worth every minute if you are trying to understand the role of neonicotinoids in bee losses and wider … Continue reading →