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Feds seek more than a face-lift for aging wildlife health center

by Susan Sargent | September 1, 2023
Groundbreaking for the new facility is tentatively scheduled for late 2024 or early 2025, though the exact timing will turn on both the environmental impact statement process and on congressional appropriations. Citing in part the work of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, ...

PEER review finds Florida once again is under-punishing pollution

After a promising first few years under Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida is right back to its dirty old ways of going soft on environmental violators, a nonprofit watchdog group says. Anti-pollution enforcement sharply declined in 2022, according to a new analysis by Public Employees for ...

Joe Montana joins neighbors to sue S.F., claiming flooding filled homes with sewage

Part of the issue, according to the lawsuit, is that San Francisco Public Utilities Commission closed rather than made needed repairs to a facility on Pierce street called an outfall, which allows excess water to go into the bay rather than escape through manholes onto the street. The ...

US government is funding kills of endangered animals, activists say

by Susan Sargent | August 31, 2023
But the coalition said the interior department’s statement is misleading. Federal money cannot be used to purchase bullets or guns for the hunts, which are paid for with state money, said Jeff Ruch, an attorney with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) non-profit ...

Public lands had a roller coaster month

ULTIMATELY, HOWEVER, all the protections in the world don’t mean a whole lot if they aren’t enforced. Just as he has for more than three decades, Cliven Bundy continues to run his cattle illegally on public lands in southern Nevada, where they gnaw on sparse vegetation and trample ...

Judge questions TSCA scope in novel case

Bob Sussman, an attorney representing intervening plaintiff groups responsible for the initial independent testing, the Center for Environmental Health and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, argued that the rule covers both impurities and byproducts. Sussman filed a motion ...
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