Democrats in Springfield care more about getting undeserved praise than checking their facts when it comes to modern pesticides, opponents of a bill waiting for Senate consideration argue.

 

“They want Illinois to be for neonics what Vermont was for GMOs: a PR stunt,” Hank Campbell, president of the American Council on Science and Health, told the Chicago City Wire.

 

Senate Bill 673, introduced by Sen. Don Harmon (D-Oak Park) earlier this year, would restrict the use of neonicotinoids (aka neonics), a class of insecticides, on publicly owned lands, which some believe causes a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD). CCD occurs when a hive's worker bees disappear, leaving behind the nurse bees, immature bees and queen. Without worker bees to collect food, the hive collapses.

 

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