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United States: Environmental Protection Agency Loophole Allows Flood of Pesticides to Litter U.S. Ecosystems

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The EPA should not have approved clothianidin, a
potent pesticide belonging to a family of substances
linked to the current widespread die-off of global
honeybee populations.

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a watchdog group, has found that as much as 65% of the 16,000 pesticides the EPA approved between the late 1970s and 2010 were green-lighted through a hasty and potentially incomplete process. The public is under the false impression that if a substance has been registered by the EPA, it has gone through a thorough government review. This is not the case. 
EPA Loophole Allows Flood of Pesticides to Litter US Ecosystems

by Carey L. Biron, Inter Press Service, via Common Dreams, 29 March 2013




Approval process for toxic substance “grievously flawed” says NRDC

WASHINGTON - An environment group here is warning that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a key government regulator, may have been haphazardly approving thousands of pesticides for decades, some of which pose risks to both human and environmental health.
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