Lisa Jackson, Administrator 

Environmental Protection Agency 

1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW 

Ariel Rios North, Washington DC 20460 

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the Center Urban Education 

about Sustainable Agriculture 

One Ferry Building, Suite 50 

San Francisco, CA 941 I 

tel (415)291-3276 

fax (415)291-3275 

www.cuesa.org

info@cuesa.org

8oard of Directors 

President 

John Dickman 

Vice President 

Karen Cook 

Secretary 

Sally Fairfax 

Treasurer 

Hans Baldauf 

John Canon 

William Crepps 

Cathy Curtis 

Robert Davis 

Bonnie Fisher 

Janet Griggs 

Markus Hartmann 

Desmond Jolly 

Mary Powell 

Joel Schirmer 

June Taylor 

Minh Tsai 

Apolinar Yerena 

Executive Director 

Dave Stockdale

We are writing on the behalf of the Center for Urban Education about 

Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) to encourage you to suspend 

clothianidin's registration. 

CUESA is a San Francisco nonprofit working to cultivate a more sustainable food 

system. We do this by supporting regional farmers and food artisans and 

educating consumers. We operate the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, which is 

widely recognized for the quality and diversity of its California agricultural 

products. We understand that honeybees are integral to our agricultural system 

and will do what we can to protect them. 

The signatures attached to this document were collected on June 23, 2012 

at our farmers market. Sixty-two people have shown their support by 

signing their names here, but this is only a fraction of how many people are 

against clothianidin. 

We urge you to protect our agricultural system by protecting our bees. 

Dave Stockdale 

CUESA Executive Director
Tell the EPA to Protect Our Honeybees From Pesticides 

Lisa Jackson, Administrator 

Environmental Protection Agency 

Dear Administrator Jackson, 

Honeybees and other insect pollinators are dying off at unprecedented rates and 

pesticides are a clear causal factor. This cannot be allowed to continue, and you can do 

something about it. 

Your agency is considering an Emergency Citizen Petition right now that seeks suspension 

of the insecticide clothianidin, the petition filed with you on March 20 by 25 beekeepers 

and four consumer and environmental groups (EPA-HQ-OPP-2012-0334). Applied to over 

a hundred million acres across the country, clothianidin has recently been confirmed as a 

highly toxic pesticide to which honeybees are exposed at potentially lethal rates 

throughout the corn planting season. Because clothianidin is persistent and systemic, bees 

and other pollinators also face ongoing sub-lethal exposures throughout the course of the 

year in a variety of other settings. 

Immediately at stake are the livelihoods of beekeepers upon whose daily work we rely to 

pollinate America's vital crops. Equally important, and more profound, is the fact that 

pollinators are keystone, indicator species - as they go, so goes the environment, and with 

it, us. 

Ms. Jackson, you can make the difference. Please recognize this is an emergency and 

suspend clothianidin's registration until your agency ensures compliance with the 

condition it imposed nine years ago. EPA said then that the registrant for clothianidin, 

Bayer Crop Science, had to provide an acceptable field study showing it would have not 

have unreasonable adverse effects on pollinators, yet Bayer has never produced a single 

scientifically valid field study supporting clothianidin's safety for pollinators. To date, your 

agency has let down the nation in allowing an unsafe and untested chemical to be released 

to market. But EPA has before it a very clear opportunity to take decisive action. 

The ongoing threat to America's honeybees is an emergency and an imminent hazard. 

Period. Americans are counting on you to make this right.
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