Environmental policy provides numerous examples where trendy politics and ignorance trump sound science. The City of Seattle’s latest action to protect honeybees is just the latest example. Taking a step called “very conservative,” the City of Seattle announced it will no longer use a class of pesticides called neonicitinoids. The resolution, which is boilerplate language from other cities, claims: An independent review of more than 800 scientific studies concluded that neonicotinoids are causing significant damage to a wide range of beneficial invertebrate species and are a key factor in the decline of bees. None of that, however, is true. Read more.