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  SHARED FOR INFORMATION AND EDUCATION ABOUT EPA FAILURES TO PROTECT  OUR FOOD AND OUR ENVIRONMENT!  This Pollinator Week, I want to talk about a threat to bees and butterflies that EPA continues to ignore.   Pollinators don't just need protection from insecticides. They need food. Yet dicamba, one of the most destructive herbicides ever approved, is wiping out the flowering plants that pollinators depend on for nectar and pollen . Scientists have found that even low levels of dicamba drift can reduce flowering, decrease pollinator visits, and degrade the habitat that sustains monarch butterflies, native bees, rusty patched bumble bees, and countless other species.   Beekeepers have seen the consequences firsthand. In some of the regions hardest hit by dicamba drift, honey production has plummeted as flowering plants disappeared from the landscape. Arkansas's largest beekeeper was ultimately forced to move his operation out of state as a consequence.   D...

  Monsanto’s dicamba is one of the most volatile and destructive pesticides ever used in U.S. agriculture.  It doesn’t stay where it’s sprayed. It drifts for  miles , carried by wind and heat, forming vapor clouds devastating everything in its path—orchards, vineyards, organic farms, endangered plants, pollinator habitats, even home gardens. Since it was first ever approved in 2016 for spraying over-the-top of genetically engineered soy and cotton,  farmers across the country have lost millions of acres of crops , rural communities have been torn apart by conflict, and fragile ecosystems collapsed under the weight of this reckless chemical. Scientists warned of this resulting damage, and yet, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)  approved Dicamba anyway , bowing to pressure from Big Ag.   The only way to stop this destruction is through responsible regulatory decisions— and that’s exactly what Center for Food Safety is fighting for . We’ve been in...