Commentary
COMMENTARY | Strategy Needed to Avert Whale Mortality
by Tim Whitehouse | May 30, 2023
At least three large whale species in U.S. waters are on the brink of extinction, with more listed as endangered. Urgent action is needed ...
Change is Possible! National Parks Reclaim Their Skies
by Paula Dinerstein | May 24, 2023
The first serious inroads have been made into curbing swarms of commercial air tours rumbling across some of America’s most besieged national parks ...
Questions About BLM’s Conservation Rule
by Chandra Rosenthal | May 8, 2023
There are serious concerns about many provisions of the new BLM conservation rule and its potential negative impact on public lands ...
COMMENTARY | EPA’s Whack-a-Mole “Forever Chemicals” Posture Is an Intolerable Failure
by Kyla Bennett | May 3, 2023
The agency must treat PFAS as a class of chemicals regulated in the same manner as the European Union and other countries ...
COMMENTARY | New Green Guides Must Address Renewable Energy
by Monica Mercola | April 26, 2023
Concern about climate change creates fertile ground for misleading marketing claims around renewable energy and other environmental issues ...
COMMENTARY | Don’t Let Plastics Overtake the Earth
by Colleen Teubner | April 22, 2023
We are recommitting ourselves to finding ways to rapidly reduce our dependence on plastics and their impact on the environment and human health ...
COMMENTARY | Letter to the EPA: Take Action on “Devil’s Bargain” Pesticides
by Peter Jenkins | March 27, 2023
The environment needs protection from neonic-coated seeds, which are by far the broadest pesticide/insecticide application across the country ...
COMMENTARY | Speed Bumps on the Road to Sustainable Mining
by Guest Contributor | March 22, 2023
To transition from fossil fuels to electric transportation requires an increase in electric generating capacity and copper is the best conductor in the world ...
COMMENTARY | Suspend your disbelief—Minnesota Permitting Process Self-Corrects
by Hudson Kingston | March 21, 2023
An air pollution permit granted illegally in to a power plant in Minnesota has been suspended pending environmental review ...
COMMENTARY | The EPA is Hiding Behind Industry Secrets
by Tim Whitehouse | March 15, 2023
This Sunshine Week, we discuss the use of “Confidential Business Information” to hide health and safety information from the public ...
COMMENTARY | Scientific Integrity Is Not a Popularity Contest
by Tim Whitehouse | March 9, 2023
Scientists who formally file dissenting opinions that challenge the orthodoxy of their agency, are often on a lonely, fraught journey ...
COMMENTARY | Public Health Scientist Vindicated
by Colleen Teubner | March 7, 2023
Even though Dr. Carpenter's case has been resolved, we hope the University at Albany will address the broader academic freedom issues that this case has opened ...
US budget riders compromise conservation
by Kyla Bennett | February 28, 2023
The use of appropriations riders as shortcuts to pass policies to circumvent environmental laws put endangered species at risk ...
COMMENTARY | EPA Asks for Comment on PFAS Data It Won’t Release
by Kyla Bennett | February 20, 2023
EPA is asking the public to comment on fluorination of plastics but keeping important materials, including health studies, confidential ...
COMMENTARY | How the FCC Fails to Follow Environmental Laws and Fails the Public
by Guest Contributor | February 20, 2023
Given the FCC’s lack of oversight and failure to comply with environmental laws, numerous environmental harms occur under the agency’s watch ...
Op-Ed | Herding Cats: Biden’s Myopic Approach to Scientific Integrity
by Jeff Ruch | February 16, 2023
The president has made it clear he believes scientific integrity is an important value. Now he must show it more forcefully ...
COMMENTARY | Conowingo: A Better Deal Coming for the Chesapeake Bay
by Paula Dinerstein | February 6, 2023
In a major victory for waterman and environmental groups, courts have vacated the licensing for Maryland's Conowingo Dam ...
COMMENTARY | Minnesota Agency Reverses Course on Illegal Permit
by Hudson Kingston | January 27, 2023
One Minnesota agency corrected its misstep and retracted a bad permit but time will tell if the others follow suit ...
COMMENTARY | PEER at Age 30 – Some Perspective
by Jeff Ruch | January 17, 2023
PEER is based on the somewhat novel idea that public servants can also be activists to advance their agencies’ mission when they fell short ...
COMMENTARY | Congress Jeopardizes North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery
by Colleen Teubner | January 9, 2023
Our elected officials and government agencies must do better to protect the North Atlantic right whale ...
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