{"id":54528,"date":"2016-11-16T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=54528"},"modified":"2016-11-16T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:44:00","slug":"trumps-top-environmental-adviser-says-pesticides-arent-bad-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/trumps-top-environmental-adviser-says-pesticides-arent-bad-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Top Environmental Adviser Says Pesticides Aren&#8217;t Bad for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To lead the transition of the Environmental Protection Agency, President-elect Donald Trump settled on notorious climate-change denier Myron Ebell. The decision rattled climate activists&mdash;see Julia Lurie&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2016\/11\/bill-mckibben-climate-change-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with Bill McKibbon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/science-and-health\/2016\/11\/14\/13582562\/trump-gop-climate-environmental-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Roberts on Vox<\/a>. But it isn&#39;t just greenhouse gas emissions that are likely to get a free ride under an Ebell-influenced EPA. Farm chemicals, too, would likely flow unabated if Ebell&#39;s agenda comes to dominate Trump&#39;s Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Ebell <a href=\"https:\/\/cei.org\/expert\/myron-ebell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">directs<\/a> the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The group runs a&nbsp; website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safechemicalpolicy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SafeChemicalPolicy.org<\/a>, that exists to downplay the health and ecological impacts of chemicals.<\/p>\n<p>If the incoming EPA takes its cues from Ebell&#39;s group, the agency&#39;s coming decisions on some widely used farm chemicals won&#39;t be hard to predict.<\/p>\n<p>Take the class of pesticides called neonicotinoids. An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/bee-studies-stir-up-pesticide-debate-1.17366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ever-accumulating weight of evidence<\/a> links <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/news-events\/news\/research-news\/2015\/bee-survey-lower-winter-losses-higher-summer-losses-increased-total-annual-losses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declining honeybee health<\/a> with neonicotinoids, which have exploded in use since the late 1990s. Yet CEI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safechemicalpolicy.org\/field-studies-find-no-impact-of-neonicotinoids-on-honeybees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">completely denies<\/a> any harm to bees from the chemicals, and rejects any role for government action in protecting bees.<\/p>\n<p>The EPA has been in the midst of a long, slow review of the chemicals, produced by pesticide giants Syngenta and Bayer. Last January, the agency released its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/files\/epa-hq-opp-2008-0844-0140.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assessment<\/a> of the most prominent one, Bayer&#39;s imidacloprid, which is heavily used on cotton and soybean fields. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/tom-philpott\/2016\/01\/epa-finds-major-pesticide-toxic-bees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">result<\/a>: EPA scientists found the chemical so harmful to bee colonies, at the levels commonly found in cotton fields, that the agency &quot;could potentially take action&quot; to &quot;restrict or limit the use&quot; of the chemical by the end of this year, an agency spokesperson told me in an emailed statement. So far, the EPA has not taken such an action.<\/p>\n<p>As for soybeans, a massive user of imidacloprid, the EPA found that it simply lacked the data from Bayer to assess it&mdash;even though the pesticide has been approved for use since the 1990s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to not believing in climate change, Myron Ebell has several other lovely qualities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1031],"tags":[7,9],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump&#039;s Top Environmental Adviser Says Pesticides Aren&#039;t Bad for You - 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