Environmental group highlights possible hazards of turf fields as Norwalk, Wilton consider projects
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PEER | 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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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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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 ...
Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert
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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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PEER |
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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PEER | 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 ...