Air Tour Plan Needs a Time Frame
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PEER | September 22, 2021
For the last 20 years the Federal Aviation Adminitration has ignored Glacier National Park’s efforts to prohibit commercial overflights. For 20 years thousands of complaints have been filed by individuals and organizations about noise pollution destroying the Glacier experience for ...
Deadline nears for HVNP’s air tours plan
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PEER |
Eleven of 24 U.S. national parks have completed drafts of court-ordered air tour management plans and released them for public comment. That’s 21 years after the Air Tour Management Act of 2000 went into effect and a year after a federal judge ruled in favor of a suit by Public Employees ...
Loosening industry’s grip on EPA’s new chemicals program
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PEER |
Many of the worst abuses coming to light took place during the Trump administration, and it is tempting to believe the change in administrations has fixed the problems. It has not. The damaging practices, culture, policies and management systems predate the last administration and laid ...
Valuable crab populations in Alaska’s warming Bering Sea waters are in a ‘very scary’ decline
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Elizabeth Duan | September 21, 2021
“Federal biologist Erin Fedewa boarded a research vessel in June in Dutch Harbor, and journeyed to a swath of the Bering Sea that typically yields an abundance of young snow crab in annual surveys. Not this summer. At this spot, and elsewhere, the sampling nets came up with ...
USGS ignores cattle in study on wild horse impacts — report
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Elizabeth Duan | September 20, 2021
“A nonprofit watchdog group says a recent peer-reviewed study led by the U.S. Geological Survey overstates the harm caused by wild horses to greater sage grouse habitat and ignores data showing that livestock grazing has a significant impact on the bird. Public Employees for ...
Environmental group blasts Interior for ignoring cattle impacts and blaming wild horses for public land damage
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Elizabeth Duan |
“The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is failing to apply its own data about the growing adverse impacts of livestock grazing on Western public lands and is instead blaming wild horses for land degradation, according to a new analysis released today by Public Employees for ...