National Park Chooses Carrying Capacity over Crowding

by | June 8, 2023
Mt. Rainier Openly Considers When Limits Needed to Save Park Resources ...

Cell Tower Casts Shade on Bryce Canyon Centennial

by | June 7, 2023
Regional Office Steamrolled over Park Management and Staff Objections ...

Stream ‘Restoration’ of Arlington Streams a Misnomer?

by The Connection Newspapers | June 6, 2023
What stopped the Alexandria projects, finally, was statistics on stream bank testing. Science based analysis changed the way the Department of Environmental Quality does analysis. $2.5 million of Stormwater assistance funds were taken off the table when it became clear the original data ...

EPA Condemned for Weak Response to Toxic Takeout Containers

by Futurism | June 3, 2023
The EPA sued the container maker, a Houston-based firm called Inhance, back in December 2022, on the grounds that Inhance had repeatedly lied to regulators about the presence of PFAS — a notoriously toxic “forever” plastic known to cause or contribute to serious health ...

Plastic containers still distributed across the US are a potential health disaster

by The Guardian | June 1, 2023
PFAS are a class of about 15,000 chemicals often used to make products resistant to water, stains and heat. The compounds are ubiquitous, and linked at low levels of exposure to cancer, thyroid disease, kidney dysfunction, birth defects, autoimmune disease and other serious health problems ...
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