Environmentalists Urge EPA To Add Food Exposures To Cleanup Factors
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Susan Sargent | March 15, 2022
The government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) led the letter, which was also signed by Natural Resources Defense Council, California Communities Against Toxics, and Committee to Bridge the Gap (CBG), among others. CBG previously raised the issue ...
“Garden Pathway” Needed for Toxic Cleanups
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Susan Sargent |
Safe Fruit & Vegetable Cultivation Should Be EPA Remediation Yardstick ...
There are millions of acres of ‘failing’ rangelands, data shows
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Susan Sargent | March 14, 2022
The BLM oversees 246 million acres of land — the vast majority of it in the Western U.S. The agency’s mission is to “sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations,” but according to records obtained by ...
Management plan may result in fewer air tours above Haleakala
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Susan Sargent |
In 2000, Congress passed the National Parks Air Tour Management Act, which requires the Federal Aviation Administration and National Park Service to develop a plan or voluntary agreement for each park where air tour operations occur or are proposed. When the agencies failed to create the ...
Watchdog reports 54M acres of BLM rangeland fails health standards
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Susan Sargent |
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, analyzed BLM data covering assessments of about 108 million acres of land that has been leased for livestock grazing, and found that about 54 million acres — an area about the size of the state of Washington — failed so-called ...