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Many other farmers in other parts of the country have also shut down their operations due to PFAS contamination after using fertilizer made from “biosolids” produced from human waste. Laura Dumais, a staff attorney with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said Paxton&# ...

Comer didn’t reference Trump by accident. Since his first term, the once-and-future president has attacked environmental science at every opportunity, suppressing information about how human activity causes climate change and opposing scientists’ suggestions on the regulation of common ...

At issue is one company’s practice of fluorination, a process that coats the inner walls of plastic containers and barrels to make them more durable, which also inadvertently creates three of the riskiest PFAS as byproducts. Inhance, a Texas-based, plastics-focused company with 11 U. ...

The Interior Department, BLM and NPS all declined to comment on the lawsuit. While the agencies began drafting a comprehensive management plan after the trail’s 2002 establishment, in 2014 they announced that they would instead follow a “comprehensive administrative strategy” that ...

The Old Spanish Trail is the focus of a new lawsuit issued by the Public Employees for Environment Responsibility (PEER). This trail is among the National Historic Trails. “They are historic routes of national significance,” said John Hiscock, Old Spanish Trail Advocate. The Old ...

The suit points in part to the Bureau of Land Management recently providing for only a 50-meter trail buffer when it comes to surface disturbances related to oil and gas leasing in its amended resource management plan for the Grand Junction Field Office. Plaintiffs in the suit include ...