Hi folks<div><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.1213px;"><br></span></div><div><span id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716434241" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.1213px;">Bayer, Syngenta and Valent agreed</span><span id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716425171" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.1213px;"> to let the EPA pull 12 pesticide products off the shelves that are used by growers ranging from large-scale agricultural businesses to home gardeners. The legal settlement regarding neonicotinoids also compels the EPA to analyze the impacts of the entire neonic class on endangered species.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.1213px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716641598"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.1213px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716641985">The EPA</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.1213px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716649671"> has canceled the registrations of the 12 pest-killing products.</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.1213px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716648133"> </span></div><div><font color="#111111" face="Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size: 17.1213px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#111111" face="Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716504896"><span style="font-size: 17.1213px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716506940"><a id="linkextractor__1558716511022" data-yahoo-extracted-link="true" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2019/05/22/the-energy-202-epa-blocks-a-dozen-products-containing-pesticides-thought-harmful-to-bees/5ce46c34a7a0a46b92a3fd6a/?utm_term=.a6dfb28e0a10" class="lEnhancr_1558716512056">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2019/05/22/the-energy-202-epa-blocks-a-dozen-products-containing-pesticides-thought-harmful-to-bees/5ce46c34a7a0a46b92a3fd6a/?utm_term=.a6dfb28e0a10</a></span></span></font></div><div><font color="#111111" face="Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif"><span style=""><span style="font-size: 17.1213px;"><br></span></span></font></div><div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716213801">Also an alarming new report connects neonicotinoids to birth deformity in deer. Captive<span style="color: rgb(49, 68, 93); font-family: Akkurat, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716796162"> deer were fed water spiked with imidacloprid, the most commonly used neonicotinoid, and they measured its presence in various organs. Deer with higher levels in their spleens had pronounced overbites. </span></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716213801"><span style="color: rgb(49, 68, 93); font-family: Akkurat, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716939047"><br></span></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716213801"><span style="color: rgb(49, 68, 93); font-family: Akkurat, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716939228">Only 2 to 20 percent of the neonicotinoids applied to seeds make it into the plant, says Jonathan Lundgren, an ecologist who worked with Jenks and directs the Ecdysis Foundation, an agricultural research organization. “That begs the question of where the other 80 to 98 percent of the chemicals are going,” he says. “And we’re starting to find them in other areas of the environment. We’re finding them in surface waters. We’re finding them in untreated plants.”<br></span></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716213801"><span style="color: rgb(49, 68, 93); font-family: Akkurat, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558717010408"><br></span></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716213801"><span style="color: rgb(49, 68, 93); font-family: Akkurat, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558717010592">Feeding imidacloprid to white-crowned sparrows caused them to lose up to a quarter of their body mass and birds I. Ontario have it in their blood. <br></span></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716213801"><span style="color: rgb(49, 68, 93); font-family: Akkurat, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558717049875"><br></span></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1558716213801"><span st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