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Major Nevada power line, solar project win final approval

by PEER | September 9, 2024
The proposed route and its impacts on the national monument, as well as undeveloped desert lands across seven counties, is part of an ongoing debate over green energy and how the infrastructure needed to get that electricity to the power grid will forever change previously untouched places ...

Roads to ruin: Why the park service closed a camping site at Lake Mead

by PEER | September 6, 2024
“In desert areas, off-road vehicles can be quite destructive,” said Jeff Ruch, director of the Pacific Regional Office of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “They rip up whatever vegetation is there and make the land uninhabitable for wildlife.” Ruch called the ...

Lawmakers push to block BLM’s sweeping public land policy: ‘These lawsuits do nothing to help Western states brave the very real threats’

by PEER | September 3, 2024
Though Western states are critical of the BLM policy, environmental activists lauded the rule as a much-needed way for conservation groups to improve the environment and revitalize public lands. Supporters also say the rule gives energy and mining companies a way to offset the ...

Something’s Poisoning America’s Land. Farmers Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals.

by PEER | August 31, 2024
Known as “forever chemicals” because of their longevity, these toxic contaminants are now being detected, sometimes at high levels, on farmland across the country, including in Texas, Maine, Michigan, New York and Tennessee. In some cases the chemicals are suspected of sickening or ...

‘A nightmare.’ North Texas farmers say chemicals in fertilizer are killing their livestock

by PEER | August 30, 2024
The lawsuit against the EPA states that the federal agency violated the Clean Water Act and the Administrative Procedures Act for failing to identify certain PFAS as “toxic pollutants” in sewage sludge and failing to regulate them where information exists to show that the chemicals ...
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