Commentary
COMMENTARY | DNR Logging Violations on Fisheries and Wildlife Lands
by Guest Contributor | August 24, 2023
Minnesota DNR failed to protect the natural resources they have been entrusted to manage, allowing logging to supersede habitat and wildlife ...
Op-Ed | The BLM Is Ignoring Its Most Serious Land-Health Problem
by Chandra Rosenthal | August 24, 2023
This head-in-the-sand approach to destructive livestock grazing has to stop ...
“P” in PEER Also Stands for Persistent
by Paula Dinerstein | August 15, 2023
Persistence pays off for PEER even in the battle for the skies of national parks ...
COMMENTARY | Is Congress Too Dysfunctional to Fund the National Parks?
by Jeff Ruch | August 10, 2023
In past decades, America’s best idea was one of the few domestic programs enjoying bipartisan support ...
COMMENTARY | Florida’s Environment – A Native Floridian Perspective
by Natasha De La Cruz | August 3, 2023
Florida must take significant steps to promote coastal resiliency and protect all communities against the effects of climate change and water pollution ...
COMMENTARY | Managing Rangelands From Outer Space
by Chandra Rosenthal | June 27, 2023
The BLM has introduced satellite imagery as its latest land management tool – with predictably bad results ...
COMMENTARY | Trump Vs. Biden: Federal Governance
by Peter Jenkins | June 22, 2023
A comparison of the Trump Administration and the first two years of the Biden Administration on their Good Governance activity ...
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 ...
COMMENTARY | 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 ...
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