BLM fails in its oversight of 155 million acres of grazing land in Colorado and 12 other Western states, lawsuit alleges
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PEER | September 14, 2023
The allegations of mismanagement follow Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility’s filing of a whistleblower complaint against the BLM last month after a rangeland manager in the San Luis Valley said her bosses were failing to enforce illegal grazing on land near the Rio ...
BLM whistleblower says illegal grazing is ruining land along the Rio Grande River
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PEER | August 21, 2023
Shawcroft is represented in her complaint by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a non-profit that works with public employees who want to point out government wrongdoing. There is no timeline for when a decision must be made on her complaint about the discipline, said Jeff ...
Hazardous “forever chemicals” used in Colorado for fracking, report says
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PEER | February 7, 2022
Lunder said before work by Physicians for Social Responsibility and the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the issue of PFAS chemicals used in drilling was “really flying under our radar.” “We have this long list of places where we’ve seen PFAS contamination, ...
Gov. Polis’ budget proposal includes millions for electric school buses, air quality monitoring, green buildings
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PEER | November 5, 2021
Chandra Rosenthal, Rocky Mountain Field Office director for PEER, said the division clearly needs more people. She estimated it employs two people who conduct predictive modeling and about 30 permit engineers, all of whom are swamped with work. Oeth couldn’t immediately confirm whether ...
Colorado air quality division issued permits despite potential violations of EPA standards, report finds
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Elizabeth Duan | September 24, 2021
“State health officials say they don’t have enough guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency to know when to estimate whether smaller polluters in Colorado exceed air quality limits on particulates, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. That lack of guidance led to the state ...