Trump firing policy still on the books at Interior, DOE
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Susan Sargent | April 26, 2022
The Interior Department has kept a strict Trump-era firing policy in place, something critics say contradicts President Joe Biden’s order to protect the federal workforce. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, has called on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland ...
State Department criticized over foreign research vessel issues
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Susan Sargent | April 24, 2022
A statement released in mid-April by PEER contends that the State Department is approving this foreign vessel research without requiring that these vessels get the same permits domestic researchers must or monitoring their activities. PEER noted the largest recorded beaching of rare Bering ...
Turf Opponents Urge Planning Board to Require Grass Fields
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Susan Sargent | April 23, 2022
“The number of environmental groups that have weighed in support of it is zero,” Mr. Houser said.An environmental advocacy group, VCS has opposed the artificial turf project at hearings and in its Conservation Almanac, a regular newsletter. Mr. Houser took note of recent events on ...
Colorado finds “forever chemicals” PFAS in 100% of fish sampled in three big counties
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Susan Sargent | April 22, 2022
Fountain, where the El Paso fish samples were taken, had to shut down its municipal water supply in 2015 after PFAS was detected, replacing it with supplies from a cleaner Pueblo Reservoir. The city eventually began treating its water sources with PFAS-removing materials supplied by the U ...
Planning board hears from artificial turf opposition
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Susan Sargent | April 20, 2022
Kyla Bennett, director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said PFAS are a very large class of compounds that are toxic in minute amounts. She said the DEP will be reassessing its maximum contaminant levels for PFAS next year, and she anticipates that the state will ...