> Last time I checked the courts don't make the laws.  Its one thing to  
> for a
> federal court to say the law is unfair and unconstitutional,  but last  
> time
> I checked that ment the state was supposed to fix it.

The what?! How did this get past the moderator? Firstly, there's 200+  
years of case law and judicial history in this country explaining the  
division between the executive, legislative and judicial branches and the  
checks and balances on each of them. Of course the courts have the power  
to impose the law not only declaring in favor or against plaintiff, but  
also enforcing their judgment by holding sides in contempt or imposing  
stiff financial penalties. Not the state, the court.

This was a judgment by the appellate overturning a decision by an  
executive branch - it's not making any law. It does not prevent the EPA  
 from re-approving sulfoxaflor (or a similar insecticide) after gathering  
more information and satisfying the objections of the 9th Circuit Court.

Just like debates about the causes of CCD or other bee ailments, there was  
room for the debate in EPA's approval. The court decided to give more  
weight to the beekeeping lobby. No law was made. Makes one wonder what  
would the decision be 20 years ago, when there was no general media  
awareness about the decline in pollinators and problems with bees. Just to  
give you an example, I was utterly shocked to get on my favorite daily  
Polish news site (www.gazeta.pl) yesterday and discover articles about the  
national (in Poland) Adopt a Bee project. It's a cross between the US  
federal pollinator task force and a crowd-funded way to raise money for  
more bee research. At first I thought that they mean colonies, but no, one  
"adopts" a bee for 2 zloty (about 75 cents). So far they've adopted over  
50,000 nationally and the goal is 60,000. Interesting idea to raise money  
for bee research, but who would've thought about this even a few years  
ago?! https://www.adoptujpszczole.pl/.

As an aside, don't even try to figure out how to pronounce the word for  
'bee' in Polish. It's amazing how the Slavic languages came up with  
something so complex for a simple insect name - 5 consonants in a row in  
the first syllable alone, :-)

Przemek

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