Nonprofit says Park Service plan to reduce plastic doesn’t move fast enough
by KJZZ | October 25, 2023
A new report by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is critical of a Park Service plan to reduce single-use plastics. The nonprofit says other public lands agencies are acting faster on similar projects. The Grand Canyon was once one of a handful of parks leading the way in ...
Board tightens rules for testing water discharged from Santa Susana Field Lab site
The vote came a few weeks after the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, released a report showing that two highly toxic chemicals are not being monitored at the Santa Susana Field lab and potentially could leak into the Los Angeles River. The 2,668- ...
NPS accused of foot-dragging with 10-year plastic waste plan
by E&E News | October 24, 2023
The National Park Service’s plan to ban single-use plastics at its 425 park sites by 2032 moves far too slowly, an environmental advocacy group said Tuesday. In an analysis of the plan, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility called it “needlessly protracted, encumbered ...
PEER: Why Is National Park Service Dragging Its Feet On Plastics?
A dozen years after Coca Cola reportedly was behind the National Park Service delay in banning disposable water bottles at Grand Canyon National Park, the agency again is dragging its feet on implementing a plastics ban, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. ...
This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.
The environmental nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is involved in the second WWP lawsuit, analyzed decades of BLM data and found that about half of the acreage it oversees that has been assessed fails to meet the agency’s own land health standards ...