Trump administration delays listing bumblebee as endangered

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Trump administration delays listing bumblebee as endangered

By JOHN FLESHER
Feb. 9, 2017 12:06 PM EST

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday delayed what would be the first endangered designation for a bee species in the continental U.S., one day before it was to take effect.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service adopted a rule Jan. 11 extending federal protection to the rusty patched bumblebee, one of many types of bees that play a vital role in pollinating crops and wild plants. It once was common across the East Coast and much of the Midwest but its numbers have plummeted since the late 1990s.

Federal law requires a 30-day waiting period before most new regulations become effective. The addition of the bumblebee to the endangered species list was scheduled for Friday.

But in a Federal Register notice, the service announced a postponement until March 21 in keeping with a Trump administration order issued Jan. 20. It imposed a 60-day freeze on regulations that had been published in the register but hadn't taken effect. The delay, according to the White House, was for the purpose of "reviewing questions of fact, law and policy they raise."

With President Donald Trump pledging to cut back on federal regulations, environmentalists said they feared the bumblebee protection might be doomed.

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[In_The_Wind]

1. We will become a starving nation when the insects that pollinate our foods become extinct.

[trixie2]

2. I think his insanity will touch all aspects of life on our planet

and not in a good way.

By the way does anyone else see how wrong it is to do this?

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. Not a problem! - Watch This $100 Drone Try to Do a Bumblebee's Job

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603590/watch-this-100-drone-try-to-do-a-bumblebees-job/

https://d267cvn3rvuq91.cloudfront.net/v/files/bumblebee.v4.mp4

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. In rural China, humans pollinate flowers by hand.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/humans-bees-china_us_570404b3e4b083f5c6092ba9

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“It is entirely possible than in our lifetime this practice could become the norm all over the world,” Frayer said.

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