It took a lawsuit filed by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility against the Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration to get to this point. PEER spokesman Jeff Ruch said the organization was pleased that Glacier was fading out tours altogether, but he said the Park ...

That clarification came after the appearance of a single sentence in the reconstruction plans of the city’s Malcolm X Park in Roxbury. A notation in the plan stated: “Mayor Wu has directed that no new artificial turf fields will be installed in the City of Boston.” Kyla Bennett, ...

The moves come 30 years after Glacier’s General Management Plan called for air tours to cease over the park. It took a lawsuit filed by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility against the Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration to get to this point. PEER spokesman ...

Artificial turf is made with several layers including plastic grass blades, plastic backing that holds the blades in place and infill that weighs down the turf and helps blades stand upright. Until recently, infill was always made with recycled rubber tires called crumb rubber. However, ...

Jeff Ruch, Pacific Director for PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) worked for over a decade as a committee staff attorney with the California State Legislature and with PEER for over thirty years. PEER was in fact responsible for bringing the fact of the secret ...