Seattle’s Pesticide Ban Won’t Help Honeybees

“Seattle’s Action on Honeybees Scientifically Calibrated to Help Politicians, Not Bees,” by Todd Meyers.
Environmental policy provides numerous examples where trendy politics and ignorance trump sound science. The City of Seattle’s latest action to protect honeybees is just the latest example.  Taking a step called “very conservative,” the City of Seattle announced it will no longer use a class of pesticides called neonicitinoids. The resolution, which is boilerplate language from other cities, claims: An independent review of more than 800 scientific studies concluded that neonicotinoids are causing significant damage to a wide range of beneficial invertebrate species and are a key factor in the decline of bees. None of that, however, is true. Read more.