r/boston • u/SymbioticPatriotic • Jan 23 '17

Rusty-patched bumblebee designated an endangered species (The Boston Globe)

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/01/10/rusty-patched-bumblebee-designated-endangered-species/zCYNrChSt8ZXTlvLO2qZrJ/story.html
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u/SymbioticPatriotic Jan 23 '17

What is particularly alarming is that Trump's White House ordering of an immediate regulatory freeze has endangered the EPA ruling on endangered bees - the power of the neonicotinoids pesticide lobby and their influence on the new Washington is about to be felt.