New Science
Thursday, 7/2, 05:36 PM
Watchdog says UK broke the law by clearing a bee-harming pesticide for sugar beet
- Britain's independent environmental watchdog has found that the government's environment department acted unlawfully when it repeatedly let sugar beet farmers use an emergency exemption to spray a banned, bee-harming pesticide.
- The ruling turns on the risks the chemical poses to pollinators — risks that decades of research have made hard to dispute.