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Despite the administration’s emphasis on improving the health of public lands, conservation groups say many grazing allotments are already degraded. Data from the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility shows that nearly one million acres fail to meet the BLM’s rangeland ...

Many of these herbicides and pesticides contain complex mixtures of supposedly “inert” compounds whose full ingredient lists remain shielded as trade secrets. Chemical manufacturers, of course, insist on the safety of these chemicals, however researchers from the nonprofit ...

Under Trump’s EPA, restrictions on dangerous chemicals are being loosened and risk assessments are being altered or delayed. Critics say the public will be paying the price with their health. “EPA no longer cares about human health,” Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public ...

“Even though Project 2025 laid it out, it’s even scarier, I think, in person watching it happen,” Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told Sierra. “I used to work at EPA, and when I talk to people who are still there, they ...

The plan also calls for amending the National Environmental Policy Act to favor big business. Among other provisions, NEPA requires the federal government to include the public in federal land decisions. Project 2025 directs a future administration to set page limits and arbitrary ...