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No One Is Happy With the Federal Grazing Program

by PEER | January 29, 2023
So what are the problems, and what needs to change? For starters, the current cattle program is deeply under-resourced, said Chandra Rosenthal in a video interview with Gizmodo. Rosenthal is the head of the Rocky Mountain office of the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental ...

Ban on pesticides with PFAS feeds concern about unintended impacts

by PEER | January 27, 2023
Environmental advocates like the Conservation Law Foundation and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility are urging Maine to go even further, calling on the Board of Pesticides Control to conduct independent PFAS tests on all registered pesticides rather than relying on ...

Advocates Seek Ban On Bloom Fertilizer Over Forever Chemicals Concerns

by PEER |
“These very, very high levels are likely to be transported into food and drinking water,” says Monica Mercola, staff counsel with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The other groups involved in the testing are the Montgomery Countryside Alliance and the Sugarloaf ...

DC Water defends soil product over claims that it contaminates drinking water

by PEER | January 26, 2023
Testing from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility released this week added to those high test results. According to PEER, Eurofins Laboratory testing of Bloom biosolid fertilizer showed PFOA (a major form of PFAS) levels of 21 parts-per-billion (ppb). This is 5.3 million ...

PEERMail | Meeting the House Challenge in the Trenches

by PEER | January 24, 2023
The new House leadership has made no secret of its plan to target government agencies in its efforts to weaken the federal government ...