Industry group calls NGO report on PFASs in synthetic turf ‘inaccurate’
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PEER | October 17, 2019
US industry group the Synthetic Turf Council has dismissed as “inaccurate” a recent NGO report claiming to have found per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in samples of the artificial turf used on playing fields. The study, conducted by Public Employees for Environmental ...
Refinery Explosions Highlight Lack of Emission Reporting
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Washington, DC, Oct. 17, 2019 — A massive refinery explosion that this week paralyzed much of the San Francisco Bay Area raised uncertainties about the contents of the massive chemical plume coating neighboring communities. A new regulation requiring that regulators, responders, and ...
United States: The Chemical Compound – October 2019
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PEER | October 16, 2019
This quarterly newsletter provides updates on litigation, regulatory, legislative, and other notable developments involving chemicals of concern to business. Our present focus is on substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and ...
NRDC Briefs Congress on Neonic Pesticide Human Health Harms
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PEER | October 15, 2019
I am pleased to be able to brief Congressional staff—both the House and Senate side—on the potential for adverse human health harms from neonicotinoid pesticides, or ‘neonics’. NRDC is one of a coalition of environmental groups—including Friends of the Earth (FOE US) and Public ...
Death Valley’s Park Service Wants Them Gone. But Are Wild Donkeys Really the Enemy?
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PEER | October 14, 2019
DEATH VALLEY National Park is stunningly barren. Silt hillsides crowned with rock and scree give way to dry streambeds and barren salt flats, the air dancing under a pitiless sun. The largest park in the lower 48 states, it contains the lowest elevation point in the country — nearly 300 ...
Bison group sues to get FOIA fulfilled; Yellowstone bison population reported
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A Montana-based bison advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Yellowstone National Park and the Department of Interior after not receiving requested records through Freedom of Information Act requests more than a year ago. Attorneys for Buffalo Field Campaign filed the complaints in U.S ...