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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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