EPA & Lawmakers Focus on New Environmental Issue: Bedbugs
In a summit today near the nation’s capital, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is putting a new emphasis on a growing environmental issue: A proliferation of bedbugs.
The increasing plague of the tiny insects, which notoriously lurk in mattresses waiting to feed on humans as they sleep, apparently has been encouraged by relaxed vigilance and increased federal restrictions in recent decades on the chemicals that can be used to combat them, reports the Associated Press.
At least one federal lawmaker is planning to introduce legislation on the topic. The bill proposed by Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C) will be known as the Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite Act.
Additional coverage:
Houston Chronicle: “Bed bugs biting in bigger batches”
New York Times: “Keeping Those Bed Bugs From Biting “
Updated at 12:10 p.m. on April 15 to include link to subsequent Houston Chronicle article.
