Glacier National Park ends air tours with decades late plan
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PEER | September 26, 2022
In 2019, the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for an order forcing the National Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration to actually enact the law and develop long overdue plans. On ...
Glacier will phase out commercial air tours by 2029, but is that soon enough?
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It took a lawsuit filed by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility against the Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration to get to this point. PEER spokesman Jeff Ruch said the organization was pleased that Glacier was fading out tours altogether, but he said the Park ...
Substantial PFAS Contamination Found in Pesticides
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Threat to Food Chain Justifies Ban of All Pesticides Containing PFAS ...
Scott Beckstead: Wild horses deserve a home in the West
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PEER | September 20, 2022
Two prominent, mainstream environmental organizations — Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Western Watersheds Project — exposed the BLM’s own grazing data that reveals commercial livestock, not wild horses, responsible for overgrazing. These organizations were ...
Toxic chemicals may be leaking into your food, makeup, or health care products, study finds
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PEER | September 19, 2022
A recent study completed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows that toxic PFAS (per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances may leach from the inside coating of shipping containers into the products they contain. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) first ...