Carey Gillam

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‘No Bees, No Food’ – Missouri Group Pushing for State Ban on Bee-killing Chemicals

By Carey Gillam | September 10, 2019

A Missouri environmental group is seeking statewide support for proposed legislation that would ban the use of a class of insecticides believed to be contributing to a decline in the population of honeybees. Environment Missouri’s “No Bees, No Food,” campaign sent canvassers across Kansas City this summer, collecting signatures in support of a ban on…

Snow and Canada geese prepare to land in an Oregon wildlife refuge. Several national wildlife refuges are phasing out pesticides from the group known as neonicotinoids because they pose a danger to bees and other pollinators. On Wednesday, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a whistleblower complaint accusing the USDA of suppressing research findings on these types of pesticides. (Photo: Jeff Barnard | AP File)

USDA whistleblower claims censorship of pesticide research

By Carey Gillam | October 31, 2015

A senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a whistleblower complaint on Wednesday accusing the federal agency of suppressing research findings that could call into question the use of a popular pesticide class that is a revenue powerhouse for the agrichemical industry. Jonathan Lundgren, a senior research entomologist with the USDA’s Agriculture Research…