The Trump Official Who Could Obliterate Public Lands
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PEER | February 3, 2020
“It’s a natural fit for an administration as chaotic and corrupt as President Donald Trump’s that William Perry Pendley, who loathes America’s public lands, was picked last September, and reappointed in January, to manage them. The Bureau of Land Management, which Pendley now ...
Artificial Turf’s Big Lie: Old Fields Not Recycled
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PEER | January 30, 2020
No Recycling Facilities, So Tons of Plastic Carpet Dumped ...
Is This the Final Word on WOTUS, or Is the Rule Just Being Kicked Downstream?
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PEER | January 29, 2020
“There’s always something going on with the waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. Last September, we wrote about how the 1986/1988 WOTUS rule would replace the 2015 Obama rule until the Trump administration finalized its new rule. Well, the final rule was just announced by the ...
Trump Administration to Strip Clean Water Protection Putting the Country’s Water at Risk
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PEER | January 28, 2020
“Obama-era clean water protections will soon be stripped and replaced. The Trump administration will finalize its replacement of the Waters of the United States rule by ‘rolling back protections for some wetlands and streams that run intermittently or temporarily underground, ...
BLM Has Put a Target on the Backs of Nevada’s Park Rangers
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PEER |
“Law enforcement rangers working for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management — working at much beloved places like Basin and Range National Monument — have very tough jobs. They are responsible for patrolling one of every 10 acres in the U.S. Each one of the roughly 200 rangers is now ...