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After West Virginia vs. EPA Case, How Can We Protect Public Health?

by Susan Sargent | October 6, 2022
In a new report, “In the Wake of West Virginia v. EPA,” policy experts from the Center for Progressive Reform, Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and the Union of Concerned Scientists look at how Congress and the executive branch can ...

San Francisco, EPA Fight Over Hunters Point Shipyard Radiation Cleanup

by Susan Sargent | October 5, 2022
In the memo to a public employee environmental watchdog group, known as “Peer,” the EPA states its land use rules are designed to “ensure protection of human health but also to ensure the integrity of remedies in the long term.” “They are not as protective as they ...

Glacier plans to phase out commercial air tours by 2029

It took a lawsuit filed by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility against the Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration to get to this point. PEER spokesman Jeff Ruch said the organization was pleased that Glacier was fading out tours altogether, but he said the Park ...

Wu blocks new artificial turfs in Boston parks, refrains from calling it a ban

That clarification came after the appearance of a single sentence in the reconstruction plans of the city’s Malcolm X Park in Roxbury. A notation in the plan stated: “Mayor Wu has directed that no new artificial turf fields will be installed in the City of Boston.” Kyla Bennett, ...

Glacier will phase out commercial air tours by 2029, but is that soon enough?

by Susan Sargent | September 30, 2022
The moves come 30 years after Glacier’s General Management Plan called for air tours to cease over the park. It took a lawsuit filed by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility against the Park Service and Federal Aviation Administration to get to this point. PEER spokesman ...

Boston bans artificial turf in parks due to toxic ‘forever chemicals’

Artificial turf is made with several layers including plastic grass blades, plastic backing that holds the blades in place and infill that weighs down the turf and helps blades stand upright. Until recently, infill was always made with recycled rubber tires called crumb rubber. However, ...
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