Attorney General Ken Paxton sues companies over “forever chemicals”
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PEER | December 12, 2024
Many other farmers in other parts of the country have also shut down their operations due to PFAS contamination after using fertilizer made from “biosolids” produced from human waste. Laura Dumais, a staff attorney with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said Paxton ...
As Trump escalates war on facts, scientists warn “we are going to get screwed”
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Comer didn’t reference Trump by accident. Since his first term, the once-and-future president has attacked environmental science at every opportunity, suppressing information about how human activity causes climate change and opposing scientists’ suggestions on the regulation of common ...
Judge rejects enviro push for EPA ban on some ‘forever chemicals’ production
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At issue is one company’s practice of fluorination, a process that coats the inner walls of plastic containers and barrels to make them more durable, which also inadvertently creates three of the riskiest PFAS as byproducts. Inhance, a Texas-based, plastics-focused company with 11 U. ...
New Scorecard Rates National Parks on Plastics
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National Park Service Should Accelerate Plan to Eliminate Plastics ...
REPORT | National Park Service Plastics and Sustainability Scorecard
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PEER | December 11, 2024
PEER developed a score card to evaluate the environmental sustainability and plastic reduction plans of 25 parks in the National Park System ...