Bucks-Montco Group Joins Nationwide Petition to Designate PFAs as Hazardous Waste
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Susan Sargent | January 16, 2020
“Thousands of residents from Bucks and Montgomery counties have joined communities across the country in a national petition demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency regulate a toxic class of chemicals known as PFAS. The petition demands that the EPA list dozens of the ...
The FCC’s Approval of SpaceX’s Starlink Mega Constellation May Have Been Unlawful
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Susan Sargent |
“A battle for the sky is raging, and the heavens are losing. Upcoming mega constellations of satellites, designed to blanket Earth orbit in spacecraft beaming high-speed Internet around the world, risk filling the firmament with tens of thousands of moving points of light, forever ...
GLRI: Good news for the Great Lakes
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Susan Sargent |
“In a Trump administration that some say has been bleak for the environment, there is good news for the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative was included in the 2020 federal budget, and for the first time, its funding level has increased to $320 million from $300 ...
Industrial Accident Emissions Reporting Plan Too Weak
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Susan Sargent | January 14, 2020
CSB Proposal Would Not Produce Useful, Accurate, or Timely Information ...
William Pendley Should Not Be Acting Administrator of the Bureau of Land Management
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Susan Sargent |
“Earlier this month, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt extended William Pendley’s appointment as the Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for another three months. The BLM has not had a Senate-confirmed permanent director at any point during the Trump ...