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When is a little ‘forever chemical’ too much to eat?

by Elizabeth Duan | January 12, 2024
Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said MDE should not only expand its testing of fish but use that information to reduce contamination of waterways. PEER did some testing of its own that found PFAS in an oyster, a crab and striped bass ...

Feds add more hoops for DNR logging on wildlife management areas

by Elizabeth Duan | January 11, 2024
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is tightening requirements imposed on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources when the state wants to cut trees in wildlife management areas. The latest details, included in a letter from the federal agency to the DNR, were made public by the ...

Whistleblowing microbiologist wins unfair dismissal case against USGS

A microbiologist has won her case for unfair dismissal against a US federal agency after she blew the whistle on animal welfare and biosafety failures. The US Geological Survey (USGS) hired Evi Emmenegger as a fisheries microbiologist in 1994, and in 2006 promoted her to manager of the ...

Alaska’s open seasons on predators are approved behind closed doors

by Elizabeth Duan | January 10, 2024
As spring arrived in southwestern Alaska, a handful of people from the state Department of Fish and Game rose early and climbed into small airplanes. As the crew flew, it watched for the humped shape of brown bears lumbering across the hummocks. When someone spotted one, skinny from its ...

EPA offers court schedule for responding to Oak Ridge landfill documents request

In coming weeks, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will review hundreds more documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act request about a new low-level radioactive waste landfill at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Site in Tennessee, according…In addition, the ...

Tucson turf businessman discusses advancement of industry concerning PFAS

Duane Enos owns Turf Designs on Silverbell near Grant. The retired Tucson Police Officer has been in business for around four years and says since the beginning, his company has tested for PFAS chemicals in their product. Enos reached out to News 4 Tucson after seeing our report on the ...
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