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As Trump escalates war on facts, scientists warn “we are going to get screwed”

by PEER | December 12, 2024
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 ...

Judge rejects enviro push for EPA ban on some ‘forever chemicals’ production

by PEER |
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. ...

Greens sue feds over Old Spanish Trail management

by PEER | December 11, 2024
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 ...

Environmental group files lawsuit to conserve Old Spanish Trail

by PEER |
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 ...

Feds sued over Old Spanish Trail management

by PEER | December 10, 2024
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 ...

Lawsuit alleges federal agencies failed to protect Old Spanish National Historic Trail

by PEER |
Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., alleging the federal government has failed to protect the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. The suit alleges that the U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management ...
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