Canyon de Chelly in Arizona will become latest national park unit to ban commercial air tours
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PEER | December 20, 2024
Canyon de Chelly is the last of roughly two dozen national park units where the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility had fought for flyover restrictions. Other national parks where such commercial flyovers essentially are or will be banned in coming years include ...
Pilots flying tourists over national parks face new rules. None are stricter than at Mount Rushmore
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Elizabeth Duan | December 4, 2023
Fewer planes and helicopters will be flying tourists over Mount Rushmore and other national monuments and parks as new regulations take effect that are intended to protect the serenity of some of the most beloved natural areas in the United States. “Mostly, the plans have been pretty ...
Watchdog: Chemical safety agency impeded by staff shortage
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Susan Sargent | September 9, 2022
“The Chemical Safety Board barely survived the Trump war of attrition against it,″ said Jeff Ruch, a top official at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group of current and former public employees. The watchdog group had sharply criticized Lemos and ...
EPA Prosecutions of Polluters Approach Quarter-Century Lows
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Susan Sargent | November 21, 2019
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Criminal prosecution and convictions of polluters have fallen to quarter-century lows under the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, deepening three years of overall enforcement declines, according to Justice Department statistics. And while ...