In 2000, Congress passed the National Parks Air Tour Management Act, which requires the Federal Aviation Administration and National Park Service to develop a plan or voluntary agreement for each park where air tour operations occur or are proposed. When the agencies failed to create the ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, analyzed BLM data covering assessments of about 108 million acres of land that has been leased for livestock grazing, and found that about 54 million acres — an area about the size of the state of Washington — failed so-called ...

Roughly half of all rangelands leased by the Bureau of Land Management for livestock grazing do not meet baseline health standards, according to a new analysis by a government watchdog group. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, analyzed BLM data covering assessments ...

New Map Shows Harmful Impacts of BLM Livestock Grazing Program ...

The size of the Whitmore settlement will likely get the attention of many federal officials, said Paula Dinerstein, a lawyer who has represented Whitmore. “It sends a message to employers: Retaliate against whistle-blowers at your peril,” said Dinerstein, senior counsel for Public ...