‘Forever chemicals’ expose the need for systemic changes
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Susan Sargent | January 15, 2023
Greatly increasing the funding and staffing of EPA’s chemicals division would certainly improve chemical oversight, observed Kyla Bennett, an ecologist and lawyer who directs science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that supports ...
Right whale calf count at 11
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Susan Sargent | January 14, 2023
There were more than 100 breeding females in 2010. Today only 75 are left in the population, George said. One female is known to be in a life threatening entanglement and was last seen near Cape Hatteras in North Carolina. George said she will likely die if people can’t locate her soon ...
Inside the Fight to Fly Over Parks
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Susan Sargent |
The action finally came as a result of a court order. The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an environmentalist group of former and current public employees, sued the FAA in 2017 for effectively ignoring the Air Tour Management Plan of 2000 for almost 20 years. ...
Inside the Fight to Fly Over National Parks
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Susan Sargent | January 13, 2023
The action finally came as a result of a court order. The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an environmentalist group of former and current public employees, sued the FAA in 2017 for effectively ignoring the Air Tour Management Plan of 2000 for almost 20 years. ...
Inhance faces EPA, environmental group lawsuits
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Susan Sargent |
Packaging barrier maker Inhance Technologies LLC is facing questions about the safety of its fluorination coating process for high density polyethylene containers, including an investigation and lawsuit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Read the PEER Story… ...
NASA now eyes 2023 first flight for X-59, as supersonic projects face heat
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Susan Sargent |
In 12 January letter, nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility urged NASA administrator Bill Nelson to review the X-59 programme in light of “climate implications”. “Supersonic aircraft consume many times more fuel and produce many times the amount of ...