Lowe's to stop selling neonic pesticides linked to bee deaths

Lowe’s to stop selling neonic pesticides linked to bee deaths

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Lowe’s plans to stop selling pesticides linked to the massive decline of honeybees around the world. The home improvement chain announced on Thursday that it would phase out products containing neonic pesticides over the next four years. In recent years, billions of bees have died from a condition known as colony collapse disorder (CCD) and neonicotinoids have been linked in multiple studies to the deaths of birds, bees and other animals. Lowe’s announcement comes after the EPA said last week that it would stop issuing new permits to use the pesticides. On Wednesday, a report from an influential European scientific council warned that neonicotinoids were more harmful to the environment than previously thought.

Lowe’s to stop selling neonic pesticides linked to bee deaths

-NBC News 4/9/2015

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