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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 ...

Conservation groups are accusing federal agencies of systematically denying access to public information in Wyoming and other western states in order to play political favorites on public lands. The organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility s now raising alarm over a ...

A new report from leading U.S. environmental research groups places PFAS at the center of another environmental investigation – in pesticides sprayed throughout our communities – threatening even more exposures in our food and water supply. The new report was a combined effort that ...

A recent Chemical & Engineering News story, “Overturning Chevron is a ‘game-changer’ for the business of chemistry,” did not include any celebratory quotes from the American Chemistry Council or its members. C&EN quoted Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the advocacy ...

The Biden administration has also finalized legal protections for scientists and other federal workers who are hired competitively into the civil service, as opposed to high-level officials who are appointed by the president. The move comes in direct response to an executive order issued ...

The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) joined a lawsuit earlier this week against the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the agency’s alleged failure to adequately address “forever chemical” contamination. According to MOFGA’s press release, the ...

Environmental groups sued the EPA on Thursday over an alleged lack of action to regulate the distribution of plastic containers contaminated with PFAS. Kyla Bennett, science policy director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is also a plaintiff, said in the ...

A blue sign, draped across a perimeter of cyclone fencing, greets anyone who happens by Broad Street and Pattison Avenue with a cheerful message: “Welcome to your new FDR Park.” Plastered next to the sign are renderings of proposed renovations, gauzy images of green spaces and happy ...

A peer-reviewed study published today in Environmental Health Perspectives reveals that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as “forever chemicals,” are increasingly being incorporated into U.S. pesticide products. This alarming trend threatens to contaminate waterways and ...

Toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals,” are increasingly making their way into pesticide products in the United States via multiple pathways, directly contaminating waterways and potentially harming human health, according to the findings of ...

Members of two U.S. House panels examined allegations of sexual assault, bullying and retaliation at the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education-operated Haskell Indian Nations University during a hearing this week. Haskell, a Lawrence, Kansas, school that is the only four-year college operated by ...

In 2021, the EPA announced its PFAS Strategic Roadmap, which outlined a strategy for cleaning up PFAS contamination and curbing the further spread of the toxic chemicals into the environment. This spring, the agency set enforceable limits for six PFAS chemicals in drinking water. Earlier ...

More and more pesticides approved for use on U.S. farm fields qualify as “forever chemicals,” new research shows, raising questions around their long-term environmental and public health consequences. The new analysis, published today in Environmental Health Perspectives, represents ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives has found that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), known as ‘forever chemicals’, are increasingly being added to U.S. pesticide products, contaminating waterways and posing potential threats to ...