Environmental

Home Depot to Phase Out Bee-killing Pesticides

Coalition presses for all retailers to make commitment to protect bees

WASHINGTON, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–December 3, 2015.   Home Depot (NYSE: HD), the world’s largest home-improvement chain, has announced that it has removed neonicotinoid pesticides, a leading driver of global bee declines, from 80 percent of its flowering plants and that it will complete its phase-out in plants by 2018. This announcement follows an ongoing campaign and letterby Friends of the Earth and allies urging…

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