Op-Ed | The Success of Biden’s America the Beautiful Plan Hinges on Empowering Federal Employees
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Chandra Rosenthal | April 6, 2022
With lofty proclamations and admirable ambition, the Biden administration set its sights on preserving 30% of American lands and waters by 2030. In order to meet the goals of its America the Beautiful plan, which is part of the worldwide “30 by 30” conservation initiative, the ...
Scientists sound alarm at US regulator’s new ‘forever chemicals’ definition
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PEER | April 5, 2022
Critics also stressed that there was very little data on the toxicity of some excluded chemicals, and permitting the use of PFAS with little toxicological data has led to problems. The EPA in November reported GenX, PFOA and PFOS – three widely used compounds – are much more toxic than ...
BLM whistleblower loses firing appeal in oilfield dispute
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PEER |
A federal administrative judge has rejected an appeal by a whistleblower who claims he was fired from his federal job after advocating for migrating birds at a huge Wyoming gas- and oilfield, the whistleblower’s attorney said Monday. Samantha Black, who adjudicates for the U.S. Merit ...
Max Q: Space goes SPAC
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PEER | April 4, 2022
Check out this fascinating Twitter thread by Kevin Bell, a lawyer at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. He details how a whistleblower informed him of a new spacecraft thruster system that used mercury, a powerful neurotoxin that, once emitted, would eventually fall back ...
Viewpoint: Analyses shows BLM ducking review of livestock grazing, impacts on wildlife
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PEER | April 1, 2022
Western Watersheds Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) each recently released analyses regarding the Bureau of Land Management’s environmental oversight of its livestock grazing program on 155 million acres of western public lands. We compiled the agency ...
Report: BLM skips mandatory analysis of grazing impacts
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PEER | March 31, 2022
The findings come on the heels of a separate analysis of internal records by the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility that found more than half of the lands managed by the bureau failed its own environmental standards. It found livestock grazing was the ...