Lawsuit Seeks Protections for Louisiana Black Bears
Press Release – For Immediate Release: Sept. 30, 2020 Contact: Dean Wilson, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper (225) 692-4114, [email protected] Ron Nowak, (703) 237-6676, [email protected] Kirsten Stade, [email protected] Lawsuit Seeks Protections for Louisiana Black Bears Fewer...BLOG | COVID-19 Pressure on FDA and CDC Accelerate as Election Nears
COVID-19 Pressure on FDA and CDC Accelerate as Election Nears With the COVID-19 pandemic growing worse, the White House is in hyperdrive to erase all barriers between the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...EPA Can’t Find Study Linking Formaldehyde to Leukemia
For Immediate Release: Friday, September 25, 2020 Contact: Kirsten Stade [email protected] EPA Can’t Find Study Linking Formaldehyde to Leukemia Agency Claims Decade-Long Formaldehyde Assessment Was Never Finished Washington, DC — The U.S. Environmental Protection...COMMENTARY | BLM Forges Ahead With Nevada Oil and Gas Leasing
Bureau of Land Management Forges Ahead with Nevada Oil and Gas Leasing Little Financial Benefits to Government but Big Losses to the Public Speculative oil and gas leasing continues across the west despite low oil prices and the fact that many oil companies are in...PEER and 70 Conservation Organizations, Representing 16 Million Americans, Endorse Colorado Wolf Restoration
For Immediate Release: Monday, September 21, 2020 Contact: Chandra Rosenthal [email protected] PEER and 70 Conservation Organizations, Representing 16 Million Americans, Endorse Colorado Wolf Restoration Colorado — On September 9, Public Employees for Environmental...BLOG | Climate Denier David Legates Joins NOAA
Climate Denier David Legates Joins NOAA The Trump administration’s appointment of a climate denier, David Legates, to help run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is another political dagger aimed at NOAA scientists. NOAA is the federal agency...COMMENTARY | Another Roll-Back That the Oil and Gas Industry Hoped You Wouldn’t Notice
Another Roll-Back That the Oil and Gas Industry Hoped You Wouldn’t Notice With the White House watching its back, the unrelenting extraction interests are continuing to push to remove any protective regulation on public lands–this time it’s our national forests....PEERMail | BLM Must Embrace Climate Solutions
Beyond 2020: BLM Must Embrace Climate Solutions This isn’t a great time. With a pandemic, huge blazes tearing across the West, and a record-setting hurricane season, this torrid year marches on, both frightening and tragic for so many people. With all of this...Beyond 2020: Bureau of Land Management
A New Vision for the BLM PEER Action Plan for 2021 Printable Download Available Here Overview Founded in 1946 through a merging of the General Land Office with the US Grazing Service, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) controls more than 247 million acres of...BLOG | The Whistleblower Protection Act is Dead
The Whistleblower Protection Act is Dead The Whistleblower Protection Act is dead – not because it was repealed, but because it was asphyxiated. The choke point is a little-known agency named the Merit Systems Protection Board, or the MSPB, which is, in essence, the...Record Green Sea Turtle Nesting on Padre Island
For Immediate Release: Thursday, September 10, 2020 Contact: Kirsten Stade [email protected] Record Green Sea Turtle Nesting on Padre Island Park Service Cuts Green Turtle Program Just as Need for Protection Spikes Washington, DC — Record numbers of green turtles...Comments on William Perry Pendley’s Unfitness to Lead the BLM
DESCRIPTION: Comments on William Perry Pendley’s Unfitness to Lead the Bureau of Land Management by Tim Whitehouse, Executive Director of PEER. TO: House Natural Resources Committee Democratic Roundtable FROM: PEER DATE: September 9, 2020 TAGS: BLM, Pendley, Testimony...Op-Ed: Science protections must be enforceable
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