PEER: Why Is National Park Service Dragging Its Feet On Plastics?
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Susan Sargent | October 24, 2023
A dozen years after Coca Cola reportedly was behind the National Park Service delay in banning disposable water bottles at Grand Canyon National Park, the agency again is dragging its feet on implementing a plastics ban, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. ...
This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.
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Susan Sargent |
The environmental nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is involved in the second WWP lawsuit, analyzed decades of BLM data and found that about half of the acreage it oversees that has been assessed fails to meet the agency’s own land health standards ...
Groups say Biden’s scientific integrity policy leaves a lot to be desired
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Susan Sargent | October 23, 2023
The first revamped agency scientific integrity policy crafted under a Biden initiative leaves a lot to be desired, according to comments submitted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and a coalition of ten public health, transparency, and environmental groups. If ...
“The establishment” and disinformation over wild horses
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Susan Sargent | October 21, 2023
This recent report compares livestock and wild horses and burros on US public lands and the tendency to fix the blame on the wild equids. Furthermore, America’s wild horses and burros should be protected under the National Historical Preservation Act, as they constitute a “living ...
The Unspoken Environmental Impact of Meat: Hogging all the land
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Susan Sargent | October 20, 2023
While the lawsuit concerns the desert tortoise, Molvar said the problem extends far beyond this sliver of Nevada. BLM is generally mandated by federal law to assess the environmental health of grazing land before it renews ranchers permits, but Molvar said the agency often fails to do so ...
PEER Sues EPA In Bid To Assess Legality Of Oak Ridge Cleanup Decision
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Susan Sargent |
An environmental whistleblower group is suing EPA over its failure to make a final determination on the group’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking records relating to the agency’s decision to uphold a controversial and precedent-setting Trump-era Superfund cleanup ...