USGS ignores cattle in study on wild horse impacts — report
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Elizabeth Duan | September 20, 2021
“A nonprofit watchdog group says a recent peer-reviewed study led by the U.S. Geological Survey overstates the harm caused by wild horses to greater sage grouse habitat and ignores data showing that livestock grazing has a significant impact on the bird. Public Employees for ...
How Biden’s team rushed to dump a Trump-era PFAS assessment
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Susan Sargent | September 1, 2021
“Kyla Bennett, who directs science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, meanwhile expressed alarm. The conversations, she said, “prove what we always suspected — Trump Administration political appointees improperly manipulated science at EPA,” ...
NPS faces growing pressure to ban single-use plastics
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Elizabeth Duan | July 22, 2021
“More than 300 green groups, businesses and nonprofits today called on the National Park Service to prohibit single-use plastics at its 423 park sites. Earlier this month, House appropriators criticized NPS for doing nothing to reduce plastic waste since the Trump administration in ...
Q&A: Retiring EPA career official talks Trump controversies
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Elizabeth Duan | July 21, 2021
“You recently spoke out against the allegation that PFBS [perfluorobutane sulfonic acid] risk assessments had been tampered with. You were quoted saying, “They are the product of biased political interference” that stands to erode the trust that the American public has in EPA and ...
