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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a federal lawsuit this week arguing that the Department of Interior has failed to develop a comprehensive management plan to preserve and protect the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. According to PEER, without such a plan, the ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group focused on environmental agencies, said it is considering a lawsuit over the impact to Tule Springs. “The Bureau of Land Management’s decision sets a dangerous precedent by allowing a project to move forward that will ...

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 ...