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Bills that have cleared their House and Senate committee hearings without opposition would block the state from setting or enforcing cleanups for hazardous “PFAS” chemicals that are used in household items like stain-resistant carpets. Response — But a national environmental group ...

But a 2018 lawsuit led by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) with co-counsel Atchafalaya Basinkeeper said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service used “false assumptions and shoddy science” to make its decision for removal. It contends the bears still need ...

The only public comments sent before the meeting concerned air permits, specifically the permit for Xcel’s Cherokee power station. Chandra Rosenthal, who leads the Rocky Mountain office for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which works with whistleblowers to expose ...

In 2020, about 25 percent of Maryland’s so-called “clean energy” under the state’s Tier 1 Renewable Portfolio Standard came from dirty sources, such as municipal solid waste burned to produce electricity and woody biomass or debris burned in power plants and paper mills. “ ...

Around 35% of Maryland’s “clean energy” in 2020 came from controversial renewable energy sources such as trash incinerators, landfills and woody debris burned in power plants and paper mills, according to a recent report. After reviewing records from the Maryland Public Service ...

“Both of these guys are are in professional purgatory, basically,” said Roll, whose organization has called on McDonough, the VA secretary, to investigate the traffic safety issue at the cemetery. Worse yet, the VA’s treatment of the two men violates the law, said Jeff ...