Letter to Secretary Haaland – Pittman-Robertson Funding – Wolves

by PEER | September 24, 2021
DESCRIPTION: Letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland regarding rogue states receiving Pittman-Robertson funding despite their egregious management of wolf populations TO: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland FROM: PEER, Global Indigenous Council, Center for Biological Diversity, and others DATE ...

Smokescreen: Years of internal complaints suggest air agency’s favoritism toward polluters

by PEER | September 23, 2021
“Because the division’s practices are currently undergoing review as part of an independent investigation facilitated by the Attorney General’s Office, the division will not comment further at this time,” he added. The three modelers are far from the first employees to voice such ...

Environmental inspections fell in Florida during COVID-19 pandemic

by PEER |
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 ...