The Louisiana Wildlife Commission voted unanimously in November to establish the season for the iconic “Teddy” bear in December 2024 in which 10 adult bears can be killed.   A 2018 lawsuit led by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) with co-counsel ...

A new plan to reduce the amount of air tours over Haleakala National Park, which has been in the making for two decades, was completed on Thursday by the National Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration, according to a news release.   The Air Tour Management Plan puts the NPS and ...

Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said MDE should not only expand its testing of fish but use that information to reduce contamination of waterways. PEER did some testing of its own that found PFAS in an oyster, a crab and striped bass ...

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is tightening requirements imposed on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources when the state wants to cut trees in wildlife management areas. The latest details, included in a letter from the federal agency to the DNR, were made public by the ...

A microbiologist has won her case for unfair dismissal against a US federal agency after she blew the whistle on animal welfare and biosafety failures. The US Geological Survey (USGS) hired Evi Emmenegger as a fisheries microbiologist in 1994, and in 2006 promoted her to manager of the ...