Listen to Tom Theobald interviewed about the EPA and clothianidin on Animal Wise Radio Podcast
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Listen to Tom Theobald interviewed about the EPA and clothianidin on KGNU’s “How On Earth”
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KGNU’s How On Earth by Shelley Schlender.
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Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own scientists’ red flags
Original article
By Tom Philpott
“The Environmental Protection Agency now has some explaining to do…”
EPA’s initial response to press on clothianidin core study
EPA’s initial response to press on clothianidin core study
Note: scroll down the page about half way and then look in the right column for “Status of Clothianidin Bee Studies”
Beekeepers ask EPA to remove pesticide linked to colony collapse disorder, citing leaked agency memo
Original article
By the Pesticide Action Network and Beyond Pesticides
Background documents
Listen to Tom Theobald interviewed about registration status of clothianidin
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on KGNU’s Morning Magazine by Len Houle
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Listen to Tom Theobald interviewed on KGNU
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on KGNU’s Morning Magazine by Shelley Schlender
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Tom Theobald’s original article for Bee Culture
By Tom Theobald
Download PDF of Do We Have a Pesticide Blowout
“Clothianidin is agriculture‛s Deep Water Horizon. America‛s farmland is awash in questionable chemicals as surely as the shorelines of the Gulf Coast are awash in crude oil – and for many of the same reasons.
I doubt that there are many readers who have escaped reports of the oil well blowout – the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform and the subsequent environmental disaster that has ensued.
Evidence is mounting that the blowout of the Deepwater Horizon was brought on by a climate of lax oversight by the federal agency responsible for ‘insuring the safety and environmental protection of offshore drilling operations,’ the Mineral Management Service, or MMS. As I’ve listened to the news and read the articles describing events leading up to the explosion I’m struck by the parallel to what has been occurring in the beekeeping world over the past several years…”
EPA hides data on pesticide link to bee die-off
By the Society of Environmental Journalists