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Park Service Eliminates Public Notice of New Cell Towers

by PEER | March 22, 2022
Public Shut Out of Review of Telecom Expansion as 5G Era Dawns ...

Florida tops list for most polluted lakes in the U.S., study finds

by PEER | March 21, 2022
A 2020 review of DEP enforcement by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility found that despite promises of reform, enforcement under Gov. Ron DeSantis continued to drop. While the number of inspections increased, finding more cases of noncompliance, the rate of enforcement fell. ...

EPA Asks DC Circ. To Toss Hazardous Waste Challenge

by PEER |
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pushed back on an effort to force it to expand the scope of regulations for managing corrosive waste, arguing its decision to reject an environmental group’s petition to reconsider its regulation deserves deference. The EPA on Friday told ...

Governor, Legislature did nothing to stop manatees from starving

by PEER | March 20, 2022
I talked to Jerry Phillips of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility about this. He said the state could be passing laws to make pollution rules stronger, require more inspections and monitoring, even shorten the timeline and increase the penalties for violators. “We need ...

Study blasts BLM for failures in managing Nevada rangeland

by PEER | March 18, 2022
A study of public records shows the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is failing to achieve its own “land health” standards, which should sound an alarm in Nevada, where 63% of the state is controlled by the agency. The watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ( ...