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USGS ignores cattle in study on wild horse impacts — report

by 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

“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 ...

At Colorado’s tight-lipped air pollution agency, a ‘culture of fear’ prevails

“Few Coloradans know the Air Pollution Control Division by name, but every time they take a breath of Rocky Mountain air, they’re impacted by the decisions it makes. Most notably, the APCD is currently the subject of multiple investigations relating to a March 2021 whistleblower ...

Interior Employees Impacted by Trump’s Relocations Rejoice as Biden Moves Agency Headquarters Back to D.C.

“The Bureau of Land Management is once again relocating its headquarters, this time moving it back to Washington, D.C., in a reversal of a controversial decision by the Trump administration. Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said ...

Why an assessment could spell changes for Padre Island National Seashore and sea turtles

“Corpus Christi’s widely renowned sea turtle conservation program may be a step closer to undergoing changes that have received public pushback. Jeff Ruch is the Pacific office director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit that attempted to have the ...

Does Nature Have Rights? A Burgeoning Legal Movement Says Rivers, Forests and Wildlife Have Standing, Too

by Elizabeth Duan | September 19, 2021
“For Chuck O’Neal, a lifelong outdoorsman and environmentalist, the moment of truth came on election night 2020, as results rolled in from perhaps the most partisan campaign season in American history. O’Neal had spent the past two years running a campaign in Orange County, ...
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