Kevin Bell, staff counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said agencies haven’t been following the standard either. “It really has become a box-checking exercise,” Bell told E&E News. “I don’t think this memo helps too much with that ...

A Ramsey County district court judge had earlier faulted the MPCA’s actions but did not find that the agency had violated any law and that the action did not, by itself, warrant reversing the permit. The Court of Appeals had agreed with that assessment, a decision which several ...

The government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) led the letter, which was also signed by Natural Resources Defense Council, California Communities Against Toxics, and Committee to Bridge the Gap (CBG), among others. CBG previously raised the issue ...

Safe Fruit & Vegetable Cultivation Should Be EPA Remediation Yardstick ...

The BLM oversees 246 million acres of land — the vast majority of it in the Western U.S. The agency’s mission is to “sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations,” but according to records obtained by ...