The Billionaire’s Press Dominates Censorship Beat
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PEER | December 8, 2022
Apart from the Intercept, “only a handful of niche publications have reported on the matter,” Project Censored noted. However, in January 2022 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a lawsuit to compel EPA to disclose the reports, following up on an earlier ...
The Elusive Quest for Environmental Justice at Hunters Point
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PEER | December 5, 2022
The ongoing controversy surrounding Hunters Point recently flared up again this fall, when the EPA made it known that it doesn’t intend to hold the Navy responsible for a full cleanup at the site. Failure to do so would disregard Proposition P, a measure passed overwhelmingly by San ...
Ranchers, greens on edge as BLM rewrites grazing rule
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PEER |
Last spring, the Western Watersheds Project released an online report showing that BLM failed to conduct an environmental analysis before renewing more than half of the grazing permits it approved last year, resulting in degraded rangelands (E&E News PM, March 23). That same month, the ...
PEERMail | Banning Lead Ammunition in National Parks
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PEER | November 29, 2022
One of the great tragedies of lead ammunition is the widespread poisoning it causes to wildlife ...
Groups petition to ban lead ammo and tackle in national parks
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PEER | November 28, 2022
Chandra Rosenthal with the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, said banning lead ammo and fishing tackle is an easy step for the federal government to take to meet its conservation goals. “This is not 1823, right? We’re going into 2023,” ...