Letter to Sec. Deb Haaland – Plastic Free Parks in Two Not Ten Years
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PEER | August 9, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Letter to Secretary Deb Haaland to move up the Department of Interior/National Park Service plastic-free timeline from 10 years to 2 years TO: Secretary Deb Haaland FROM: PEER, Green Latinos and Beyond Plastics DATE: August 09, 2022 TAGS: NPS, Plastic Free Parks ...
‘Our community has been deceived’: Turf wars mount over PFAS
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PEER | August 3, 2022
“Portsmouth is a really good example of [how] it’s really hard to put the horse back in the barn after the doors are open,” said Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, who has worked with a number of environmental groups ...
Maryland must stop pretending that poultry waste is clean energy
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PEER | August 2, 2022
In 2020, more than a third of Maryland’s “clean energy” dollars went to polluting energy sources, according to a report earlier this year by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Setting goals for 100% clean energy is critical, but it must be married with appropriate ...
Loophole Lets DOL Install Wage Chief While Nomination Is Pending
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Courts have split on whether these arrangements are legal. Separate rulings in Gianforte v. Bureau of Land Management at the US District Court for the District of Montana and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility v. the National Park Service at the US District Court for the ...
EPA Routinely Ignores Chemical Risk Calculations
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Workers imperiled by failures to flag serious known hazards ...