Victory: 9th Circuit rejects approval of Dow Chemical’s sulfoxaflor 
Alyssa Anderson, daughter of a beekeeper, holds a baby bee in a California orchard. Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice
San Francisco, CA —(ENEWSPF)–September 10, 2015. Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejectedU.S. EPA’s approval of the neonicotinoid insecticide “sulfoxaflor.” The Court concluded that EPA violated federal law when it approved sulfoxaflor without reliable studies regarding the impact that the insecticide would have on honeybee colonies.…
