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This Pollinator Week, I want to talk about a threat to bees and butterflies that EPA continues to ignore.
Pollinators don't just need protection from insecticides. They need food. Yet dicamba, one of the most destructive herbicides ever approved, is wiping out the flowering plants that pollinators depend on for nectar and pollen. Scientists have found that even low levels of dicamba drift can reduce flowering, decrease pollinator visits, and degrade the habitat that sustains monarch butterflies, native bees, rusty patched bumble bees, and countless other species.
Beekeepers have seen the consequences firsthand. In some of the regions hardest hit by dicamba drift, honey production has plummeted as flowering plants disappeared from the landscape. Arkansas's largest beekeeper was ultimately forced to move his operation out of state as a consequence.
Despite years of real-world evidence, EPA has once again approved dicamba for use on genetically engineered, dicamba-resistant crops.
That's why Center for Food Safety is back in court.
We've already defeated unlawful dicamba approvals twice. And thanks to our protective legal and scientific work, pollinators had a reprieve from the dicamba onslaught last year for the second straight year, saved from millions of pounds of drift.
But unfortunately, this fight is far from over: now we're challenging EPA's latest irresponsible approval, which strips away key protections and threatens even more damage to farms, wildlands, and pollinator habitat.
Pollinator Week is a celebration of the species that make our food system possible. But celebration alone won't protect them. We need action. We need accountability. And we need the resources to keep fighting.
Will you make a gift today to help us stop dicamba and protect the pollinators that sustain life on Earth?
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