EPA faces lawsuit over PFAS in fluorinated plastics
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Elizabeth Duan | May 22, 2024
Public health groups are continuing to push the US Environmental Protection Agency to ban a fluorination process that improves the barrier properties of high-density polyethylene plastic containers. The process creates per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), including harmful ...
Nearly 60 million acres of BLM land fail to meet agency’s standards for land health
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Elizabeth Duan | May 21, 2024
Our Chandra Rosenthal spoke with OPB on the impact that grazing has on land health, including on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM oversees 245 million acres of public land across the U.S. More than 60% of that rangeland is being managed through leased ...
Report: Vast swaths of BLM rangelands don’t meet health standards, millions of acres remain unassessed
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Elizabeth Duan |
Newly released data show that much of the grazing land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management does not meet agency standards for rangeland health. BLM data obtained by the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) shows that roughly half of assessed lands ...
EPA may need to relaunch lawsuit against Inhance over PFAS
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Elizabeth Duan |
Public health groups want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to try again to restrict fluorination of plastic containers, saying they plan to ask a federal court to compel the EPA to reopen its efforts to against coating maker Inhance Technologies LLC… Read the PEER Story… ...
Daybreak May 21: Vilsack announces CCC-funded trade grants
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Elizabeth Duan |
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is threatening to sue EPA to stop allowing the manufacture and distribution of plastic containers used for a variety of products, including pesticides. The group is targeting the fluorination process used to create “barrier properties” ...
National Park Service Continues To Wallow In Best Places To Work Rankings
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Elizabeth Duan | May 20, 2024
While the National Park Service stands atop all federal agencies in terms of favorability rankings, the agency’s employees rank it as one of the worst places to work in the federal government. In the Best Places To Work In the Federal Government rankings released Monday, the Park ...