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National Park Service Punts on Plastic-Free Policies

by PEER | May 24, 2022
NPS Balks on Plastic Bottle Sales Ban or Restoring Superintendent Discretion ...

A pass for polluting? Environmental groups, employees say EPA enforcement efforts lacking

by PEER | May 21, 2022
The data fits with the experiences of Tim Whitehouse, a former senior attorney at the EPA who helped enforce water pollution laws in the 1990s and early 2000s. During his tenure, Whitehouse said, he felt the agency was supported by Congress, which provided higher funding and more ...

Minnesota agency asserts authority over carbon capture pipelines

by PEER | May 20, 2022
But some landowners in the path of proposed pipelines have expressed concerns about safety, damage to farmland and drain tile, and the use of eminent domain by companies to gain right-of-way. The PUC decided that pressurized carbon dioxide is a toxic or corrosive gas, therefore subject to ...

Minnesota PUC says it can write rules for carbon capture pipelines

by PEER |
The PUC decided that pressurized carbon dioxide is a toxic or corrosive gas, therefore subject to the PUC’s existing regulatory authority. Attorney Hudson Kingston, representing Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, also testified that legislators “were saying that the ...

Minnesota moves to regulate carbon dioxide pipelines

by PEER | May 19, 2022
While carbon dioxide is not harmful to humans in small amounts — it’s exhaled in every breath we take — in high concentrations CO2 can displace oxygen within the gas plume. “The fact that purified and highly pressurized carbon dioxide gas can explode out of pipelines and suffocate ...