Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks Says the National Park System Deserves Better

by Susan Sargent | November 8, 2019
“November 8, 2019 – Phil Francis, Chair of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, released a statement in response to the recent report by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) on evaporating staff levels at the National Park Service (NPS). “ ...

Connelly: The ongoing, back door bid to commercialize our national parks

“Seriously, why is it so necessary to “boost agency revenues” and treat park campgrounds as an “under performing asset?” It’s because Trump wants to cut $481 million out of an already inadequate National Park Service budget. Public Employees for ...

Somerset County Wastewater Treatment Plant Accepts Potentially Contaminated Runoff

“Discharging PFAS contaminated leachate into a wastewater treatment system without continuous monitoring and strict pollution controls is asking for trouble,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in a statement. “What’s ...

Lowell Water Treatment Plant to Stop Accepting Toxic Water from N.H. Landfill

by Susan Sargent | November 7, 2019
“Under pressure from lawmakers and environmental advocates, officials in Lowell said Thursday that they had suspended a contract with a New Hampshire landfill that sent a large volume of toxic runoff into the Merrimack River, a source of drinking water to more than a half-million ...

EPA Stacks the Deck on Pollution Permit Appeals

EPA would straight-jacket its quasi-independent appeals board by determining what it could hear and how it could rule ...
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