WASHINGTON: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a leading environmental group, has filed a lawsuit in federal district court in New York on Friday against the Environmental Protection Agency EPA, for failing to protect the monarch butterflies.
The lawsuit accuses EPA regulators of dismissing dangers about a chemical used in herbicides; including Monsanto’s widely used Roundup. It states that glyphosate, an ingredient in the herbicide, and the resulting destruction of the milkweed habitat that migrating monarchs rely on, has had devastating effects on monarch butterflies, and has led the population to halve in seven years.
According to the lawsuit, federal law requires EPA to ensure that pesticides it approves will not cause “unreasonable adverse effects on the environment, including wildlife. However, the agency has never considered glyphosate’s impacts on monarchs.”
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the numbers of the orange-and-black spotted monarchs, renowned for migrating across a whopping 2,500 miles area from Canada, across the U. S. and into the forested mountains of central Mexico and then back again, have fallen drastically in recent years.
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