EPA Report on Neonics Proves US Has ‘Five-Alarm Fire’ on Its Hands, Green Groups Say

“There’s now no question that neonicotinoids play an outsized role in our heartbreaking extinction crisis,” said one advocate. The EPA must “ban these pesticides so future generations don’t live in a world without bees and butterflies and the plants that depend on them.”

Source: EPA Report on Neonics Proves US Has ‘Five-Alarm Fire’ on Its Hands, Green Groups Say

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s ‘State of the Planet’ Message Revisited 

“Many of my colleagues and I believe that our global civilization is on an economic path that is environmentally unsustainable, one that is leading us toward economic decline and eventual collapse… Our global situation is incredibly challenging today because of the adoption of the western economic model (e.g., materialism, consumerism, and throw-away mentality) throughout much of the developed and developing economies of the world.”

Source: Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s ‘State of the Planet’ Message Revisited – CounterPunch.org

‘Huge Win’: Court Finds EPA Approval of Bee-Killing Sulfoxaflor Unlawful

“It’s long past time for the EPA to take meaningful action to protect our most imperiled wildlife and put protections in place for endangered species before approving use of toxic pesticides on millions of acres of crops,” said one advocate.

Source: ‘Huge Win’: Court Finds EPA Approval of Bee-Killing Sulfoxaflor Unlawful