Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment “horrifying”: The Guardian
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Susan Sargent | March 7, 2023
Contaminated soil from the site around the train wreck in the U.S. state of Ohio is being sent to a nearby incinerator with a history of clean air violations, raising fears that the chemicals being removed from the ground will be redistributed across the region, British newspaper The ...
‘It’s Glacial’: One Agency Is Still Struggling to Overcome the ‘Assault’ on Its Workforce
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Susan Sargent |
The department, which declined to comment for this story, has recognized it is facing a crisis. It is being asked to do more than ever before, but has fewer people with which to do it. In a recent workforce planning document, Interior said the infrastructure law and the GOAO will force it ...
Inside the Battle for Air Tourism Vs. the Right to Silence in Our National Parks
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Susan Sargent | March 6, 2023
The parks were spurred into decision-making by a 2019 lawsuit filed by the non-profit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which resulted in a court order demanding that any park hosting more than 50 sightseeing air tours a year develop a management plan by August 22 ...
Environmental group highlights possible hazards of turf fields as Norwalk, Wilton consider projects
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Susan Sargent | March 4, 2023
During the webinar, Kyla Bennett, director of science policy with the Maryland-based nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the presence of PFAS is inevitable when it comes to turf fields. “Nobody is going to be able to provide you a PFAS-free field,” ...
500-Mile-Long Power Line Hits a Roadblock: Ice Age Fossils
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Susan Sargent |
The NPS cautioned in comments filed to BLM last year that “The construction of the transmission line…will have the potential to impact paleontological resources, including an undetermined number of fossil remains and unrecorded fossil sites,” according to the Public Employees for ...
E-bikes are an environmental dream — except out in nature
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Susan Sargent |
The National Park Service, as part of a directive by the Trump administration in 2019, allows e-bikes on all trails in its 423 national parks where traditional bikes are allowed. This is being challenged in a lawsuit by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a coalition ...