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Dear Administrator Regan, President Biden pledged to restore science to its central role in protecting our environment and health. I call on you to keep that promise by heeding this very clear scientific fact: our vital bees and other pollinators are being decimated by the widespread use of neurotoxic pesticides called neonicotinoids or "neonics." Despite overwhelming evidence that these neonic pesticides are a main culprit of this staggering decline, the EPA has failed to impose commonsense restrictions on their use. Our food supply depends on these pollinators. A decline in the population of pollinators can result in increased food costs, reduced access to healthy food, and worsening food insecurity – crises that will hit low-income communities and communities of color especially hard. And neonics could be a health risk to people as well: federally funded research suggests there may be links between neonic exposure and malformations of the developing heart and brain. As your agency conducts its safety review of neonics, please put science before industry profits and ban the bee-killing uses of these dangerous pesticides. Until the EPA takes this vital and long overdue action, I will continue standing with NRDC, both in and out of court, and the millions of people across the country calling on you to defend America's pollinators, our food supply, and our health from this chemical assault. Thank you.

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