FACTSHEET | Federal Wildlife Funding: Pittman-Robertson Act
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PEER | May 15, 2022
The Pittman-Robertson Act was enacted in 1937 was intended to promote preservation and restoration of wildlife habitats ...
Environment Groups Want EPA Do More To Protect Manatees, Wildlife
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PEER | May 14, 2022
2022 is close to turning into another record year for manatee deaths in Florida. In the first two months of the year, there have been 400 manatee deaths, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Now several conservation organizations have sued the Environmental ...
A pass for polluting? Environmental groups, employees say EPA enforcement efforts lacking
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PEER | May 13, 2022
The data fits with the experiences of Tim Whitehouse, a former senior attorney at EPA who helped enforce water pollution laws in the 1990s and early 2000s. During his tenure, Whitehouse said, he felt the agency was supported by Congress, which provided both higher funding and more ...
Letter to Minnesota Public Utilities Commission – Great River Energy Cambridge Plant Permit Alteration
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DESCRIPTION: PEER letter to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission in the In the Matter of a Request for a Minor Alteration to Great River Energy’s 170 MW, Natural Gas-Fired, Simple Cycle Combustion Turbine Generator at its Cambridge 2 Peaking Plant Site near Cambridge, Isanti County ...
As EPA Oversight of Pesticides Shrinks, Workload Doubles—Raising Safety Concerns
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PEER |
In January 2022, Beyond Pesticides wrote about the emerging changes emanating from EPA in relation to its OPP ESA efforts: “Beyond Pesticides joined with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and three dozen allied groups to lay out what a ‘larger effort’ to ...
