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From: News Herald “The state has cut back on monitoring and reduced enforcement to a trickle. According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, before 2010 the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) had about 1500 enforcement cases per year. By 2013 that number had ...

From: Bay View “That March 30, 2018 EPA report was copied to Amy Brownell of the San Francisco Department of Public Health who is quoted in the May 30, 2018 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, “We can say definitively there are no public safety concerns or health concerns out there ...

From: Mother Jones ““Some component of the population here derives great ego gratification out of killing wolves and bears,” says Rick Steiner, a retired University of Alaska professor and board member at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group. “There ...

From: Montana Standard “The National Bison Range (NBR) in Moiese is in the midst of a management and budgetary upheaval that creates a grave problem for its short- and long-term viability. Founded in 1908 the NBR, often called the “Crown Jewel of the refuge system,” is ...

From: Miami Herald “Most of the suspected or confirmed Red Tide victims were found dead in Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties, but one recently turned up floating in Terra Ceia Bay in Manatee County. “We find that the primary route is through ingestion of seagrass that has the toxins ...

From: SF Weekly “Earlier this year, the EPA determined that as much as 97 percent of the data produced by Tetra Tech, the Navy contractor spearheading the former shipyard’s toxic cleanup for more than a decade, may have been falsified or manipulated. In May, two former Tetra Tech ...