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GovExec Daily: Empowering Employees Will Help Conservation Efforts

by PEER | April 19, 2022
Lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, predominantly in the Western United States, cover nearly 250 million acres or about 10% of the land in the U.S. But, conserving public lands depends on the White House empowering federal employees at the land management agencies. Chandra ...

At Least It Won’t Be Raining Mercury

by PEER |
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 ...

UN Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

by PEER |
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 PEER | 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 PEER | 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.

by PEER |
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 ...