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Bees can’t wait: we need to ratchet up the pressure on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban bee-killing uses of neonics and put pollinators and people ahead of industry profits.</p></div> <div class="region region-content"> <div id="block-system-main" class="block block-system"> <div class="content"> <div id="node-2926" class="node node-sba-message-action node-promoted clearfix" about="/letter/2926-pollinators-neonics-evergreen-act-040124" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"> <span property="dc:title" content="Tell the EPA: For the Future of Our Food Supply, Ban Toxic Neonics!" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-message-cta-mobile field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Send a message to the EPA urging them to ban bee-killing uses of neonics.</div></div></div> <div id="message-action-form-2col-column-wrapper" class="container-fluid action-body-left"> <div class="row-fluid"> <div id="left" class="span5 message-column"> <div id="call-to-action"> <div id="call-to-action-call"><h2>Send a message to the EPA chief, Michael Regan, urging him to ban bee-killing uses of neonics and save the future of our food supply.</h2></div> <div id="call-to-action-body"> <div><img alt="Ban bee killing use of neonics!" src="https://image.email.nrdc.org/lib/fe2e11737164047e721679/m/1/ff8e729b-ab25-4ba9-a33c-17b8e22b28a9.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 315px;" /></div> <p class="photo-credit">Photo: Stoyan Nenov/Reuters</p> <p>Bees and other pollinators are dying at an alarming rate from a deluge of toxic pesticides called neonics, pushed by agrochemical giants like Bayer.</p> <p>We depend on bees and other pollinators for one out of every three bites of food we eat. <strong>Simply put, fewer bees = less food</strong>. That could mean increasing food costs, reduced access to healthier foods, and food scarcity that will hit low-income communities and communities of color especially hard. Enough is enough.</p> <p><strong>Bees can’t wait: we need to ratchet up the pressure on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban bee-killing uses of neonics and put pollinators and people ahead of industry profits.</strong></p></div> <p></p> </div> </div> <div id="right" class="span7 message-column"> <fieldset id="take-action-wrapper" class = "form-wrapper"><legend>CTA</legend> <div class = "fieldset-wrapper"> <form class="webform-client-form form-layouts two-column-body-left" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="/letter/2926-pollinators-neonics-evergreen-act-040124" method="post" id="webform-client-form-2926" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div> <div id="sba-messages-form" class="form-wrapper"><fieldset class="sba-message form-wrapper" id="edit-sba-messages-single-not-multi-flow"><legend><span class="fieldset-legend">Your Message</span></legend><div class="fieldset-wrapper"></div></fieldset> <div class="sba-message form-wrapper" id="edit-sba-messages-message-1147"><div id="edit-sba-messages-message-1147-subject-show" class="form-item form-type-item form-item-sba-messages-message-1147-subject-show control-group"> <label for="edit-sba-messages-message-1147-subject-show">Subject </label> Save our pollinators – and our food supply – from toxic pesticides! </div><div id="edit-sba-messages-message-1147-greeting-show" class="form-item form-type-item form-item-sba-messages-message-1147-greeting-show control-group"> Dear Administrator Regan, </div><div class="form-item form-type-textarea form-item-sba-messages-message-1147-edited-body control-group"> <label class="element-invisible" for="edit-sba-messages-message-1147-edited-body">Message Body </label> <textarea id="edit-sba-messages-message-1147-edited-body" name="sba_messages[message][1147][edited_body]" cols="60" rows="5" class="form-textarea">I call on you to protect our environment and health by heeding this very clear scientific fact: our vital bees and other pollinators are being decimated by the widespread use of neurotoxic pesticides called neonicotinoids or "neonics." Despite overwhelming evidence that these neonic pesticides are a main culprit behind this staggering decline, the EPA has failed to impose commonsense restrictions on their use. Our food supply depends on these pollinators. A decline in pollinators can result in increased food costs, reduced access to healthy food, and worsening food insecurity – crises that will hit low-income communities and communities of color especially hard. And neonics could be a health risk to people as well: federally funded research suggests there may be links between neonic exposure and malformations of the developing heart and brain. Please put science before industry profits and ban the bee-killing uses of these dangerous pesticides. Until the EPA takes this vital and long overdue action, I will continue standing with NRDC, both in and out of court, and the millions of people across the country calling on you to defend America's pollinators, our food supply, and our health from this chemical assault. 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