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The Environmental Protection Agency wants to end a landmark lawsuit it brought against Inhance Technologies LLC and its plastic container fluorination process after a federal appeals court… Read the PEER Story… ...

Advocacy groups are raising concerns over a proposal by the Bureau of Land Management to alter a power line route in Nevada to avoid interfering with a potential mining site, but not move the line to avoid a national monument in its path. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

Melissa Shawcroft spent more than 30 years managing 250,000 acres of publicly owned grazing lands in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. A veteran employee of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Shawcroft retired earlier this month after years of working to reform the agency from ...

EPA dropped a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against a plastics company unintentionally making “forever chemicals,” seemingly accepting defeat after a federal appellate court blocked the agency’s attempt to pause production altogether. The federal government filed a notice ...

The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, or MOFGA, claims that federal law requires the EPA to regulate toxic pollutants in sludge and take steps to prevent them from harming humans and the environment. Its failure to do so has put us all at risk, said MOFGA Director Sarah ...

Inside Fort Worth’s December 2022 grand opening of a wastewater treatment plant, the mood was celebratory. After years of controversy and a $59 million state loan, city officials were seeing the fruits of their labor: a facility capable of taking in tons of sewage sludge and turning it ...