Secrecy, Obfuscation, and Broken Promises: The Santa Susana Field Lab and 60+ Years of Bad Governance
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Susan Sargent | September 29, 2022
Jeff Ruch, Pacific Director for PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) worked for over a decade as a committee staff attorney with the California State Legislature and with PEER for over thirty years. PEER was in fact responsible for bringing the fact of the secret ...
Glacier Park Finalizes Plan to Phase Out Aerial Sightseeing Tours
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Susan Sargent | September 28, 2022
In ordering the FAA and NPS to produce a schedule for bringing 23 national parks, including Glacier National Park, into compliance with the Air Tour Management Act of 2000, Judge Griffith resolves a lawsuit brought by the Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono, or HICoP, and the Public ...
NGO requests US EPA to mandate pesticide testing, ban those containing PFASs
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Susan Sargent |
Environmental advocates have asked the US EPA to require manufacturers to inspect all Fifra-registered goods for PFASs and then prohibit those containing the persistent compounds. The 26 September letter from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) comes amid increasing ...
Former EPA Officials Say ‘Clean’ CR Will Deepen TSCA Budget Struggle
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Susan Sargent | September 27, 2022
Three former EPA officials say Congress’ new agreement on a continuing resolution (CR) extending fiscal year 2022 funding levels for EPA and most other agencies into December could be “problematic” for the TSCA program, following warnings by top officials that the office needs an ...
Actually, Wild Horses and Burros Deserve a Home in the West
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Susan Sargent |
Two prominent, mainstream environmental organizations — Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Western Watersheds Project — exposed the BLM’s own grazing data that reveals commercial livestock, not wild horses, responsible for overgrazing. These organizations were ...
High levels of toxic PFAS found in pesticides used in farming
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Susan Sargent | September 26, 2022
“The level of PFAS absorption by plants detected in this study suggests that this exposure pathway poses a major threat to the safety of our food supply,” Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the government watchdog group PEER, wrote in a Sept. 26 letter to EPA Administrator ...