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State backs air tour limits over Marin’s national parks

by PEER | November 23, 2022
Jeff Ruch, a regional director for the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the new rules are not only long overdue but also lack proper environmental studies to prove they would actually reduce disturbances to wildlife. Ruch said one example of this in the ...

Newsom Lets Boeing Keep Groundwater Forever Polluted

by PEER | November 22, 2022
New Deal Sets No Timetable for Cleaning Highly Toxic Santa Susana Aquifer ...

Supplemental Comment to Minnesota PUC – Summit Carbon Solutions route permit completeness – 11-21-2022 (PDF)

by PEER | November 21, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Supplemental Comment to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission regarding “the Application of Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC, for a Routing Permit” TO: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission FROM: Hudson Kingston, PEER DATE: November 21, 2022 TAGS: Minnesota, pollution, ...

Did climate change really kill billions of snow crabs in Alaska? Here’s what experts say

by PEER | November 19, 2022
“During the past few years, as the numbers of some major Bering Sea crab stocks have approached the vanishing point, climate change and ocean warming have received most of the blame in the news media,” Dew said by email. “Overfishing and trawl bycatch have gotten relatively little ...

Report: Livestock, not wild horses, have degraded public lands

by PEER |
Not much, a conservation group’s analysis of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) data found earlier this month — raising questions about the value of ongoing efforts to reduce the number of horses inhabiting federal lands used for livestock grazing, which has a significantly bigger ...