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NPS accused of foot-dragging with 10-year plastic waste plan

by PEER | October 24, 2023
The National Park Service’s plan to ban single-use plastics at its 425 park sites by 2032 moves far too slowly, an environmental advocacy group said Tuesday. In an analysis of the plan, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility called it “needlessly protracted, encumbered ...

PEER: Why Is National Park Service Dragging Its Feet On Plastics?

by PEER |
A dozen years after Coca Cola reportedly was behind the National Park Service delay in banning disposable water bottles at Grand Canyon National Park, the agency again is dragging its feet on implementing a plastics ban, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. ...

This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.

by PEER |
The environmental nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is involved in the second WWP lawsuit, analyzed decades of BLM data and found that about half of the acreage it oversees that has been assessed fails to meet the agency’s own land health standards ...

Letter to Minnesota DNR – Sustainable Timber Harvest Report

by PEER |
DESCRIPTION: Letter to Minnesota DNR regarding Sustainable Timber Harvest Implementation Report TO: Commissioner Sarah Strommen, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources FROM: Chandra Rosenthal, PEER DATE: October 24, 2023 TAGS: Timber, Minnesota       ...

National Park Service Punts on Plastic Reduction

by PEER |
No Concrete Action for Years as Parks Ink New Plastic Bottle Concessions ...