Our Chandra Rosenthal spoke with OPB on the impact that grazing has on land health, including on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM oversees 245 million acres of public land across the U.S. More than 60% of that rangeland is being managed through leased ...

Newly released data show that much of the grazing land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management does not meet agency standards for rangeland health. BLM data obtained by the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) shows that roughly half of assessed lands ...

Public health groups want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to try again to restrict fluorination of plastic containers, saying they plan to ask a federal court to compel the EPA to reopen its efforts to against coating maker Inhance Technologies LLC… Read the PEER Story… ...

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is threatening to sue EPA to stop allowing the manufacture and distribution of plastic containers used for a variety of products, including pesticides. The group is targeting the fluorination process used to create “barrier properties” ...

While the National Park Service stands atop all federal agencies in terms of favorability rankings, the agency’s employees rank it as one of the worst places to work in the federal government. In the Best Places To Work In the Federal Government rankings released Monday, the Park ...

An analysis from the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) reveals that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is failing to meet agency standards in caring for the 56.7 million acres of rangeland under its purvey, writes Jimmy Tobias in High Country News. “Particularly ...

In response to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise article “Turf field approved, incumbents re-elected in Saranac Lake”, published on May 21, Marc Wanner of Saranac Lake wrote: Artificial turf is made of nylon, polypropylene and/or polyethylene. Chemicals used include, lead, ...

Without publicly disclosing it, federal officials pushed the planned pathway of a major NV Energy transmission line out of the way of a potential Southern Nevada mining site — drawing the consternation of conservation watchdog groups, who have previously raised concerns that the line ...

Conservation groups are questioning the Bureau of Land Management’s “skewed priorities” in decisions surrounding the path of a massive powerline project between Las Vegas and Northern Nevada. Email exchanges between BLM officials and the leader of Basin and Range Watch, Kevin ...

In California, public health advocates have accused the US Navy and the EPA of failing to deal with the toxic dumping at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site in a way that protects the public. The shipyard in San Francisco has been on the Superfund list since 1989, contaminated ...

With spring sports in full swing across Maine, there’s a lot of competition for field time. The solution for some communities across the state has been investments in artificial turf to extend the season, but it’s sparked a new debate about just how safe those fields are. One ...

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to end a landmark lawsuit it brought against Inhance Technologies LLC and its plastic container fluorination process after a federal appeals court… Read the PEER Story… ...

Advocacy groups are raising concerns over a proposal by the Bureau of Land Management to alter a power line route in Nevada to avoid interfering with a potential mining site, but not move the line to avoid a national monument in its path. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

Melissa Shawcroft spent more than 30 years managing 250,000 acres of publicly owned grazing lands in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. A veteran employee of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Shawcroft retired earlier this month after years of working to reform the agency from ...

EPA dropped a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against a plastics company unintentionally making “forever chemicals,” seemingly accepting defeat after a federal appellate court blocked the agency’s attempt to pause production altogether. The federal government filed a notice ...

The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, or MOFGA, claims that federal law requires the EPA to regulate toxic pollutants in sludge and take steps to prevent them from harming humans and the environment. Its failure to do so has put us all at risk, said MOFGA Director Sarah ...

Inside Fort Worth’s December 2022 grand opening of a wastewater treatment plant, the mood was celebratory. After years of controversy and a $59 million state loan, city officials were seeing the fruits of their labor: a facility capable of taking in tons of sewage sludge and turning it ...

The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Education last month was legally compelled to publicly release an investigative report into Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) that was finished more than a year ago. Haskell, located in Lawrence, Kan., is operated by the Interior ...

The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association announced Tuesday that it plans to sue federal regulators over the issue of forever chemicals in sludge. MOFGA says it intends to sue the EPA under the Clean Water Act. The organization plans to work with Public Employees for ...

Maine’s reckoning with the legacy of “forever chemicals” on its agricultural land may expand to federal court this summer. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association filed a notice of intent May 14 to sue the United States Environmental Protection Agency, alleging it failed ...