EPA’s re-classification “dangerously ignores science and downplays the risks individuals face when they are exposed to 1,3-D,” wrote the attorneys general of seven states and the District of Columbia in a 2020 letter to the Office of Pesticide Programs. Top law enforcement officers ...

The NPS held an open comment period last year to gather feedback from the public and local, state, tribal, and federal agencies. The review gauged the potential e-bike impact in national parks on non-motorized trails. The Finding of No Significant Impact confirmed the 2020 decision that ...

A lack of park rangers puts more visitors in harm’s way, said Jeff Ruch, PEER’s Pacific director. “People are going deeper into places where they shouldn’t be and getting into trouble,” said Ruch, noting that park search-and-rescue calls have more than tripled between 2015 ...

The completion of the new environmental assessment and an accompanying finding of no significant impact is the latest turn for a public lands debate that gained speed in 2019 when the Trump administration ordered park superintendents to allow electric bicycles to be used throughout the ...

Parvini and his daughter participated in a small, preliminary study by PEER, or the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which involved wiping their hands with specialized wipes to detect chemicals after playing on turf and grass. The study confirmed that kids pick up PFAS ...

“I think the PFAS drinking water standards are one of the first big cases where you will see how the Loper decision is being applied,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “These decisions will open everything up to more and ...

The plan also calls for amending the National Environmental Policy Act to favor big business. Among other provisions, NEPA requires the federal government to include the public in federal land decisions. Project 2025 directs a future administration to set page limits and arbitrary ...

Meanwhile, another lawsuit led by the ranchers is challenging the EPA’s inaction on preventing PFAS contamination in fertilizers and added Johnson County, as well as the environmental groups Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and the Potomac Riverkeeper Network, as co- ...

Massachusetts, like most New England states, has its own regulations about air pollution, safe drinking water, wetlands and wildlife protection, which are often tougher than federal laws. The Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act and the Massachusetts Rivers Protection Act, for instance, ...

Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a Ph.D, and J.D., says: “The things that are wrong with it are plentiful.” She relates how artificial turf emits carbon dioxide and methane, cannot be recycled, and causes “worse injuries ...

A lack of transparency could complicate efforts by environmental or good governance advocates to file lawsuits challenging rules that don’t follow the science. Tim Whitehouse, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said it’s already difficult for ...

Should Harris and Walz prevail in November, how much he could influence PFAS policy is an open question. Some legal experts aren’t sure if a Minnesota-style national ban on PFAS would even be feasible without legislation from Congress, a prospect that’s unlikely in the current ...

Earlier this year, the Maryland-based environmental nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, sued the EPA over the lack of biosolid fertilizer standards. “EPA has deemed it acceptable for biosolids containing PFAS and other known toxic chemicals to be applied ...

PEER maintains that the NPS has all but abandoned efforts to assess its law enforcement needs. Although NPS policy requires each park to perform a Law Enforcement Needs Assessment every three years, the agency has abandoned the practice, the group said. Meanwhile, a five-year-old ...

Sadly, the federal government hasn’t been keeping the number of law enforcement rangers up, despite new records for park visitors every year. Just since 2021, more than a quarter of rangers have left the agency and were not replaced. Since 2010, 48% of ranger slots went vacant with no ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, in a report released Thursday, says the number of NPS law enforcement rangers and special agents has declined by nearly half since 2010, and has now reached what the group calls a “generational low,” according to data it obtained via ...

Commercial livestock grazing across the West is a growing threat to the greater sage-grouse, according to an analysis by conservation groups Western Watersheds Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The groups analyzed documents from the Bureau of Land Management ...

The plight of greater sage grouse across the West is troubling, scientists say. Greater sage grouse populations declined nearly 80% between 1966 and 2021 and 41% from 2002-2021, according to federal scientists’ reports in the ongoing federal environmental review of grouse management. The ...

Selon une étude américaine publiée le 24 juillet dans la revue Environmental Health Perspectives, les per- et polyfluoroalkylées (PFAS) sont de plus en plus utilisés dans les pesticides aux États-Unis. Ces « polluants éternels » sont omniprésents dans notre quotidien, comme ...

A coalition of conservation groups has petitioned the Bureau of Land Management to protect a large southern Nevada valley west of Las Vegas, citing the threat of large-scale solar development. At issue is the South Pahrump Valley and proposals to build at least five utility-scale solar ...