Conservationists frequently criticize the agency for its grazing policies, and two of them have filed suit. The Western Watersheds Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility say the law requires the BLM to conduct an environmental assessment before it issues a grazing ...
The Bureau of Land Management oversees 246 million acres of land — scrubby sagebrush, rolling deserts and dense forests — mostly in the Western U.S. It’s home to all sorts of things, from sage grouse, pronghorn and ponderosa pines to dirt bikers, cows and drilling infrastructure. But ...
“I can’t imagine that out of 40,000 acres there isn’t a sizable percentage that BLM couldn’t work with farmers and ranchers in the area to lease,” Schoesler said. Environmental organizations are looking to reduce grazing on BLM land. Western Watersheds Project ...
In a recent opinion piece, Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning claims her agency has a renewed focus on land health. However, she fails to make even a single mention of the most pervasive land-health problem the agency faces: livestock-caused ecological destruction ...
In a statement to the Guardian, the interior department claimed federal money is not used for the kills. Spokesperson Melissa Schwartz said the allegation that the department funded state kills was “wildly inaccurate”. But the coalition said the interior department’s statement is ...
Groups including Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the Government Accountability Project, and the Center for Reproductive Rights wrote to the administration to warn that both Democratic and Republican administrations have stood in the way of scientific integrity, ...
The first revamped agency scientific integrity policy crafted under a Biden initiative leaves a lot to be desired, according to comments submitted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and a coalition of ten public health, transparency, and environmental groups. If ...
The Health and Human Services Department became the first agency to publicly update its Scientific Integrity Policy, following an edict from the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy to strengthen its protections for civil servants working in science and research. HHS ...
Groundbreaking for the new facility is tentatively scheduled for late 2024 or early 2025, though the exact timing will turn on both the environmental impact statement process and on congressional appropriations. Citing in part the work of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, ...
After a promising first few years under Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida is right back to its dirty old ways of going soft on environmental violators, a nonprofit watchdog group says. Anti-pollution enforcement sharply declined in 2022, according to a new analysis by Public Employees for ...
Part of the issue, according to the lawsuit, is that San Francisco Public Utilities Commission closed rather than made needed repairs to a facility on Pierce street called an outfall, which allows excess water to go into the bay rather than escape through manholes onto the street. The ...
But the coalition said the interior department’s statement is misleading. Federal money cannot be used to purchase bullets or guns for the hunts, which are paid for with state money, said Jeff Ruch, an attorney with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) non-profit ...
ULTIMATELY, HOWEVER, all the protections in the world don’t mean a whole lot if they aren’t enforced. Just as he has for more than three decades, Cliven Bundy continues to run his cattle illegally on public lands in southern Nevada, where they gnaw on sparse vegetation and trample ...
Bob Sussman, an attorney representing intervening plaintiff groups responsible for the initial independent testing, the Center for Environmental Health and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, argued that the rule covers both impurities and byproducts. Sussman filed a motion ...
“You are literally laying down acres of plastic, which means that you are destroying that habitat, that soil for any kind of insect life or wildlife,” says Bennett, New England director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and PEER’s director of ...
Environmental protection organizations are quick to point out that the EPA’s proposed limits do little to mitigate a much larger problem. In a statement released on March 14, 2023, in response to the EPA’s announcement, Public Employees for Environmental Protection (PEER) stated that ...
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. The Bureau of Land Management named Shawcroft its range management specialist of the year in 2012 and ...
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 ...
Current and former EPA employees say the agency is not defining some fluorinated chemicals used in pesticides as PFAS at a time when research has discovered their widespread use in agricultural products. The agency also excludes some “ultra short chain” PFAS refrigerants, which are ...
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, is an organization that supports whistleblowers who have worked for government agencies. The nonprofit has filed complaints in the past on behalf of EPA scientists who alleged the agency’s managers often overlook or omit ...