Public health groups are continuing to push the US Environmental Protection Agency to ban a fluorination process that improves the barrier properties of high-density polyethylene plastic containers. The process creates per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), including harmful ...

DESCRIPTION: Letter to the House Committee on Agriculture’s Chair and Ranking Member to remove sections of the Farm, Food and National Security Act that would limit state and local authority to regulate pesticides TO: Chair G.T. Thompson and Ranking Member David Scott, House ...

Our Chandra Rosenthal spoke with OPB on the impact that grazing has on land health, including on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM oversees 245 million acres of public land across the U.S. More than 60% of that rangeland is being managed through leased ...

Newly released data show that much of the grazing land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management does not meet agency standards for rangeland health. BLM data obtained by the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) shows that roughly half of assessed lands ...

Public health groups want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to try again to restrict fluorination of plastic containers, saying they plan to ask a federal court to compel the EPA to reopen its efforts to against coating maker Inhance Technologies LLC… Read the PEER Story… ...