BLM To Continue To Permit Livestock Degradation to San Pedro National Conservation Area

by PEER | December 31, 2022
The BLM has the gall to say adaptive management will be a “benefit” to the public because they claim it will “reduce” the damage from on-going livestock use. To the BLM, if they can “reduce” the impacts of cattle, this is good enough to permit the continued vandalism of public ...

Letter to Forest Service – Futuring of Livestock Management

by PEER | December 30, 2022
DESCRIPTION: Letter to J. Eric Davis Jr., U.S. Forest Service regarding the “futuring” of livestock management on federal public lands managed by the USFS TO: U.S. Forest Service FROM: Advocates for Snake Preservation, Aldo’s Silver City Broadband of the Great Old Broads for ...

Nonprofit organizations file suit against Houston plastics manufacturer

by PEER |
On Dec. 27,nonprofit organizations the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a lawsuit under federal environmental law to prevent Inhance Technologies USA of Houston, Texas, from generating toxic PFAS or “forever ...

National Park Service Has Lost Nearly 50 Percent Of Its Special Agents Since 2000

by PEER |
According to PEER, the latest annual report (2020) from the NPS Investigative Services Branch estimates that felony investigations of property crimes and serious drug-related offenses represent approximately one-fifth of the current workload. “Reducing our official response to ...

Park Service Criminal Investigators Down by Nearly Half

by PEER | December 29, 2022
Investigation Triage Pulls Agents from Property and Drug Trafficking Cases ...