Conservationists urge Biden administration to step up plastics ban in parks
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Susan Sargent | August 23, 2022
The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, has found through public records requests that industry lobbyists have fought the agency on the issue behind the scenes. “National parks are where we come to enjoy our nation’s natural beauty and learn about its ...
Conservationists urge Biden administration to step up plastics ban in parks
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Susan Sargent |
The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, has found through public records requests that industry lobbyists have fought the agency on the issue behind the scenes. “National parks are where we come to enjoy our nation’s natural beauty and learn about its ...
PEERMail | Save the Right Whales
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Susan Sargent | August 22, 2022
Extinction is a choice that humans often make about animals and nowhere is that truer than with the North Atlantic right whale ...
‘Dooming another generation of Americans’: The crisis of exposure to toxic materials
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Susan Sargent |
Dr. Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and a former EPA employee, told Daily Kos about how this failure spans across presidential administrations regardless of party. “We have not had an environmental president since ...
Water board, Boeing deal sets stage for cleanup to begin
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Susan Sargent | August 19, 2022
West Hills resident Melissa Bumstead, founder of Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab, said the group has identified 81 cases of pediatric cancer within a 10-mile radius of the SSFL. Jeff Ruch, founder and executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the ...