Just Sent to Scott Pruitt of EPA

I am writing to urge you to protect pollinators and our environment from the many harms of neonicotinoids. In January 2017 the EPA concluded that three of the nation's most commonly used neonics (clothianidin, thiamethoxam and dinotefuran) pose significant risks to bees. And yet these toxic pesticides are still allowed for widespread use in the United States. That's unacceptable.
In 2016 the most comprehensive global assessment of pollinators ever conducted found that 40 percent of pollinating insects are threatened with extinction. The study specifically named neonicotinoids as a significant driver of wild pollinator declines. That's why the EPA should stop the careless use of these controversial pesticides in keeping with the best available science. Pollinators are responsible for 1 out of every 3 bites of food that we eat and provide ecological benefits beyond measure. They're critical to our survival — and that of countless plants and animals.
Neonicotinoids have already been banned by the European Union and on all U.S. wildlife refuges, so it's time we treat our pollinators better and expand this ban nationwide. If the EPA acknowledges that neonicotinoids pose significant threats to bees, it shouldn't allow their continued use.
Studies have been showing since 1962 when Rachel Carson began researching additives to nature such as these, that this was horrors to come in the making.  Her study was a book called "Silent Spring."  There was a sequel to that written later with the popular death cocktails at the time, but more on a chemical note.
As a chemist and ornithologist, I assure you that you are not only killing the 3-B's (birds, bats, and bees), you are also killing people.  Cancers have tripled since then, just like our populations have doubled, but any way you look at it, it is a nightmare that George Orwell discussed in the book "1984," shockingly published in 1949.  It was meant to be science fiction many believed, but it was the truth, as you can see for yourself.
Now, we have even more powerful cocktails of demise and if allowed to continue, they will only get worse, until all the B's have been eradicated and farmers are pollinating with toothpicks and cotton swabs.  That is NOT science fiction.  I strong suggest that you heed my call instead of giving in to the pesticide industry, the pharmaceuticals, ad nauseum.  We know quite well that government will not bite the hand that feeds it, but let's face it, you and yours are only human, too.
Let the nightmare end.  Yours could just well be starting tonight while you attempt sleep.