Groups Call on EPA to Ban Plastic Fluorination that Creates PFAS
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PEER | February 13, 2023
EPA Must Release Withheld Health and Safety Studies ...
EPA’s biggest union to warn Congress of ‘staffing crisis’
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Union members plan to meet with lawmakers between Monday and Wednesday in what they are calling a “lobbying blitz.” On Tuesday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) will speak at an AFGE rally, while on Wednesday, more than 40 employees will hold another rally outside the EPA headquarters ...
Pressure mounts over plastic company’s ‘forever chemicals’
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Environmental advocates are cranking up pressure on regulators amid a high profile “forever chemicals” crisis that has implicated a plastics company. Two groups — the Center for Environmental Health and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility — called on the ...
Study: States And NPS Need To Reach Cooperative Goals On Wolves
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PEER | February 12, 2023
The study, which appeared in the January 17 edition of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (attached below), followed by a handful of years a wolf study in Yukon-Charley Rivers that was forced to end in 2016 because the Alaska Department of Fish and Game had sponsored a predator ...
Minnesota power co-op wants to invest in flexibility for fossil fuel peaker plant
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PEER | February 10, 2023
Clean Up The River Environment, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations note that burning fuel oil instead of natural gas will increase particulate matter, mercury, lead, carcinogenic diesel exhaust and arsenic. Hudson ...