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National parks to phase out single-use plastics

by Susan Sargent | June 8, 2022
Chandra Rosenthal, who leads the Rocky Mountain office for the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, also said the agencywide order was heartening. “We hope that in practice the agencies move more quickly than the mandated 10-year phaseout, so we will continue to push ...

E-Bikes Are Everywhere, Should They Be Allowed on Trails?

Efforts to allow e-bikes on trails have already drawn significant pushback, likely offering a preview of the debates to come. When the Trump administration announced a plan to allow all e-bikes on trails allowing bikes at national parks, a group called Public Employees for Environmental ...

Debate continues over future of embattled Dunn landfill in Rensselaer

by Susan Sargent | June 7, 2022
In March, The Rensselaer School Board joined the call to shut the landfill down, and recently held a public informational meeting with the Rensselaer Environmental Coalition at Rensselaer High School on Dunn’s permit renewal process, aimed at getting more people to participate. The ...

Proliferation of e-bikes raises question of whether they should be on trails

Efforts to allow e-bikes on trails have already drawn significant pushback, likely offering a preview of the debates to come. When the Trump administration announced a plan to allow all e-bikes on trails allowing bikes at national parks, a group called Public Employees for Environmental ...

Colorado air pollution panel fails to fix whistleblower complaints, environmentalists say

Environmental groups say a state science and policy panel failed to fix problems tagged by whistleblowers that the state broke EPA rules in how it sets pollution caps for companies, and that now the state will continue to rubber stamp unlawful permits and harmful emissions. The advisory ...

E-Bikes on Shaky Ground in National Parks Pending Environmental Review

by Susan Sargent | June 6, 2022
In 2019, P. Daniel Smith, NPS acting director at the time, issued a directive that ordered every park to treat e-bikes “in a similar manner” to traditional bicycles. That policy, called the Smith Directive, led to a “Final Rule” that now governs how the NPS treats them; as such, it ...
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