Environmental

Legal Petition Urges EPA to Protect Waters from Widespread Insecticide Contamination

EPA must fix key policies to stem imminent threats to aquatic life

WASHINGTON, DC—(ENEWSPF)–February 2, 2016.  Center for Food Safety (CFS) today filed a formal petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking greater protections for the nation’s waters and aquatic life from increasing use of neonicotinoid insecticides. The petition draws from previous CFS researchshowing widespread water contamination with neonicotinoid insecticides which threatens a range of aquatic invertebrates, including crabs…

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