Environmental inspections fell in Florida during COVID-19 pandemic

by PEER | September 23, 2021
State environmental investigators inspected fewer potential violations in 2020 than in 2019, but the number of enforcement actions reached their highest level in nearly a decade, according to a new study from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Department of Environmental ...

Air Tour Plan Needs a Time Frame

by PEER | September 22, 2021
For the last 20 years the Federal Aviation Adminitration has ignored Glacier National Park’s efforts to prohibit commercial overflights. For 20 years thousands of complaints have been filed by individuals and organizations about noise pollution destroying the Glacier experience for ...

Deadline nears for HVNP’s air tours plan

by PEER |
Eleven of 24 U.S. national parks have completed drafts of court-ordered air tour management plans and released them for public comment. That’s 21 years after the Air Tour Management Act of 2000 went into effect and a year after a federal judge ruled in favor of a suit by Public Employees ...

Loosening industry’s grip on EPA’s new chemicals program

by PEER |
Many of the worst abuses coming to light took place during the Trump administration, and it is tempting to believe the change in administrations has fixed the problems.  It has not.  The damaging practices, culture, policies and management systems predate the last administration and laid ...

Interior Wild Horse Focus Ignores Cattle Impacts  

by PEER | September 20, 2021
BLM’s Scientific “Cow Blindness” Impedes Sage Grouse Recovery ...
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