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UN Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

by Susan Sargent | April 19, 2022
In 2018, an employee at Apollo Fusion approached the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that investigates environmental misconduct in the United States. The employee — who has remained anonymous — alleged that the Mountain View, Calif.-based space ...

Low-Flying Helicopter Prompts Concerns At Yellowstone National Park

by Susan Sargent | April 15, 2022
At Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which successfully sued the agencies for not moving more quickly on establishing air tour plans, Jeff Ruch said park superintendents pretty much have their hands tied when it comes to airspace over their parks. “Park ...

Study finds thousands of acres of ‘failing’ BLM rangelands within Gunnison County

by Susan Sargent | April 13, 2022
Over 200,000 acres of land used for livestock grazing in Gunnison County and the adjacent lands are failing to meet the Bureau of Land Management’s own land-health standards, according to an analysis of BLM records obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a ...

Colorado will have hundreds more air pollution sources to permit. Here’s how the state is gearing up.

Lack of pollution modeling staff and permitting procedures too friendly to industrial polluters were among the criticisms leveled at the health department by internal whistleblowers in 2021. The whistleblowers, from the Air Pollution Control Division’s modeling staff, asked the EPA ...

EPA hits reset on pesticides and endangered species work

by Susan Sargent | April 12, 2022
Some advocates felt the work plan left a lot to be desired. Kyla Bennett, who directs science policy for the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said she appreciated EPA’s honesty around not having the resources to meet its demands in a reasonable time frame. But she ...

Biden EPA Unveils ‘First-Ever’ Blueprint to Protect Endangered Species From Pesticides

Kyla Bennett, who directs science policy for the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said she appreciated EPA’s honesty around not having the resources to meet its demands in a reasonable time frame. But she pointed to a number of concerns, namely the workplan&# ...
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