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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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...