Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert
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Susan Sargent | March 4, 2023
Contaminated soil from the site around the East Palestine train wreck in 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. The new plan is “ ...
Environmental group highlights possible hazards of turf fields as Norwalk, Wilton consider projects
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Susan Sargent |
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,” ...
Groups Challenge EPA on Allowing Toxic Pesticides that Do Not Even Work and Without Its Review
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Susan Sargent | March 3, 2023
The Center for Food Safety, Pesticide Action Network North America, Center for Biological Diversity, Beyond Pesticides, and other advocates have filed lawsuits in recent years to get EPA to act protectively on neonics and other pesticides. The coalition of groups in the subject case ...
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 ...
The feds crack down on feral cattle
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Susan Sargent | March 2, 2023
Low fees are only one of the places the feds have dropped the ball on grazing. The data shows that the BLM fails to meet its own standards for rangeland health. Agency-managed national monuments — including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah and Canyon ...
Ice age fossils slow massive power line for renewable energy
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Susan Sargent |
The results of the studyconducted in September by a third-party contractor — in collaboration with NPS senior paleontologist Vincent Santucci, two U.S. Geological Survey geologists and the monument’s former acting superintendent — found “deposits deemed to have a high ...