Environmental concerns ground mercury-based satellite thrusters
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PEER | April 8, 2022
But in 2018, Kevin Bell at the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer), a US environmental organisation, was contacted by a space industry whistleblower. The insider told Bell that California-based Apollo Fusion had developed a new mercury-based thruster and was beginning ...
BLM skipping environmental review where livestock grazing conflicts are greatest | Anderson
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PEER | April 6, 2022
Western Watersheds Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) each recently released analyses regarding the Bureau of Land Management’s environmental oversight of its livestock grazing program on 155 million acres of western public lands. We compiled the agency ...
UN ban on mercury as a propellant reveals gaps in ‘Space Law’
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In 2018, Kevin Bell, Staff Counsel at NGO Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), received information from a whistleblower about a new satellite thruster under development that used mercury — a highly toxic liquid metal — as a propellant. The company — Apollo ...
US nonprofit sues to compel disclosure on PFASs in high-density polyethylene containers
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The US nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has sued the US EPA over its alleged failure to comply with a public records request related to PFAS contamination from fluorinated high-density polyethylene (HDPE) containers. Filed in the US District Court for the ...
Forever Chemicals: Understanding and Mitigating Impacts of PFAS
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PEER | April 5, 2022
Boston Globe climate reporter Sabrina Shankman moderates a discussion with PEER's Kyla Bennett, scientists and town members about PFAS impacts and solutions ...