Pinelands Commission OKs Plan To ‘Thin’ Over 1300 Acres Of Trees In Bass River, But Experts Disagree On Its Value In Preventing Fires

by Pine Barrens Tribune | December 8, 2022
Concurring with that sentiment was environmentalist Bill Wolfe, who served in various roles with the NJDEP for 13 years, including that of policy advisor to the commissioner, was policy director of the New Jersey Sierra Club for seven years, founder of the nonprofit Public Employees for ...

The Billionaire’s Press Dominates Censorship Beat

Apart from the Intercept, “only a handful of niche publications have reported on the matter,” Project Censored noted. However, in January 2022 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a lawsuit to compel EPA to disclose the reports, following up on an earlier ...

The Elusive Quest for Environmental Justice at Hunters Point

by Earth Island Journal | December 5, 2022
The ongoing controversy surrounding Hunters Point recently flared up again this fall, when the EPA made it known that it doesn’t intend to hold the Navy responsible for a full cleanup at the site. Failure to do so would disregard Proposition P, a measure passed overwhelmingly by San ...

Ranchers, greens on edge as BLM rewrites grazing rule

by E&E News |
Last spring, the Western Watersheds Project released an online report showing that BLM failed to conduct an environmental analysis before renewing more than half of the grazing permits it approved last year, resulting in degraded rangelands (E&E News PM, March 23). That same month, the ...

PEERMail | Banning Lead Ammunition in National Parks

by | November 29, 2022
One of the great tragedies of lead ammunition is the widespread poisoning it causes to wildlife ...
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