The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its final Policy to Mitigate the Acute Risk to Bees From Pesticide Products at the end of last week.
The Friends of the Earth group feels the policy doesn't do enough to address the fact that some chemicals stay in the environment for months and years after application.
It notes the final policy is more relaxed the initially proposed version from May of 2015.
Spokesperson Tiffany Finck-Haynes feels the policy is a failure.
She says the growing amount of science published since the EPA released its proposed policy should have led to strengthened, not weakened regulations.
