Making evidence on bees disappear

When bee colony collapse disorder spread across the country in the following seasons, the EPA claimed there was no evidence that pesticides were responsible. And this was confirmed in 2006, when the EPA suddenly closed its research library in Washington due to “budget pressure,” and moved all its previous research on the effects of agricultural chemicals into uncatalogued cardboard boxes in a cafeteria basement War and Peace with the Beasts: A History of Our Relationships with Animals