City Council delays vote on baseball field turf decision
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PEER | December 12, 2025
Kyla Bennett, director of science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told the council that no proper analysis has shown the existence of PFAs-free turf. Even if the turf did not have PFAs, its microplastics would contaminate soils and water, Bennett said. Read ...
BLM rule proposes to put conservation on ‘equal footing’ with other uses
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PEER | May 26, 2023
Earlier this year, an analysis by watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility found that more than 25 million acres of BLM-managed land, about one-fifth of its total acreage, failed to reach land-health benchmarks for such considerations. Western Energy Alliance ...
How wired should the wild parks be?
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Elizabeth Duan | June 21, 2021
“One of the tell-tale signs you’ve crossed into Glacier National Park is that your phone turns into a mostly useless brick of electronics — unless of course you want to use it to take a photo of the stunning mountain vistas. But that could soon change after the National Park ...