Could conservation plan prompt tougher grazing oversight?
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Susan Sargent | November 1, 2021
When top federal land managers suggested this month that millions of acres of public lands leased for grazing livestock could count toward the Biden administration’s aggressive conservation plan, environmentalists were quick to slam the idea. After all, according to data compiled by ...
EPA Withheld Reports of Substantial Risk Posed by 1,200 Chemicals
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Susan Sargent |
“The fact that these studies aren’t being included means there’s a very good chance there are some chemical assessments where we should have reached different conclusions,” said another EPA staff member who is familiar with the chemical assessment process. The information comes ...
State and federal PFAS measures promise stronger protection from ‘forever chemicals’
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Susan Sargent | October 29, 2021
In Delaware, some 200 sites have been identified as possible sources of PFAS, according to a new report from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit, which used EPA data on industrial facilities that “may be handling” the chemicals. The Delaware sites ...
PETITION | End State Subsidies for Slaughter
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Susan Sargent | October 27, 2021
Petition to Sec of Interior to disqualify states from receiving wildlife restoration funding if they allow hunting or trapping at levels that compromise healthy populations of wildlife ...
Maryland Groups Begin Campaign to Clean Up State Renewable Energy Standard
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Susan Sargent |
Today, 13 environmental and social justice groups announced the creation of the Reclaim Renewable Energy Coalition (Reclaim REC); formed to clean up Maryland’s Renewable portfolio standard (RPS). Maryland’s RPS was created by the state legislature in 2004 as a way to ramp up the ...