In 2020, about 25 percent of Maryland’s so-called “clean energy” under the state’s Tier 1 Renewable Portfolio Standard came from dirty sources, such as municipal solid waste burned to produce electricity and woody biomass or debris burned in power plants and paper mills. “ ...

Around 35% of Maryland’s “clean energy” in 2020 came from controversial renewable energy sources such as trash incinerators, landfills and woody debris burned in power plants and paper mills, according to a recent report. After reviewing records from the Maryland Public Service ...

“Both of these guys are are in professional purgatory, basically,” said Roll, whose organization has called on McDonough, the VA secretary, to investigate the traffic safety issue at the cemetery. Worse yet, the VA’s treatment of the two men violates the law, said Jeff ...

“Work by the applicant is still not authorized to begin until or if a right-of-way permit is approved and issued,” said  Yellowstone public information specialist Linda Veress. “Also, just because a FONSI is signed doesn’t mean the project has been approved. It just ...

Interior said in its motion that Loewen was fired in November 2021 “based on his unacceptable performance and failure to follow instructions.” Peter Jenkins, a senior counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is representing Loewen in the matter, countered in ...

The undersigned civil society organizations urge you to allow the full Senate to consider and vote on pending nominations to all three vacancies on the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which serves millions of federal employees as the primary adjudicative agency for worker claims of ...

Interior said in its motion that Loewen was fired in November 2021 “based on his unacceptable performance and failure to follow instructions.” But lawyers for the government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which is representing Loewen, counter ...

But for environmentalists and at least one member of the School Committee, Dr. Tim Lepore, the jury is still out. The concern is over the turf field, and not only the potential for environmental harm to the groundwater from chemical leaching, but an allegation that the school has attempted ...

Maryland lawmakers, a conservation nonprofit and a charter boat association all urged the D.C. Circuit to vacate a 50-year license issued to a 570-megawatt hydroelectric dam, arguing federal energy regulators didn’t… Read the PEER Story… ...

Lepore, who has been outspoken in questioning the risks that PFAS chemicals used to manufacture synthetic turf fields might cause to the island’s sole-source aquifer, has invited to the workshop scientific voices who have made their positions clear, when the use of turf fields was being ...

Lunder said before work by Physicians for Social Responsibility and the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the issue of PFAS chemicals used in drilling was “really flying under our radar.” “We have this long list of places where we’ve seen PFAS contamination, ...

Military officials tracked the spread of the chemicals from Peterson Air Force Base south to the communities, where public drinking water wells were contaminated. Lunder said before work by Physicians for Social Responsibility and the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

The EPA said its resumed posting data online about new types of problems potentially caused by commercial chemicals, less than a month after an advocacy group sued for the information. Substantial risk notices for hundreds of chemicals are now available through the ChemView database, the ...

A proposal to close a section of the Blue Ridge Parkway for an Ironman competition runs counter to National Park Service policies and regulations, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The proposed race would close 21 miles of the scenic highway to the public ...

As for the Effigy Mounds, the theft of ancestral remains wasn’t the only blemish at the monument, which is home to hundreds of tribal burial mounds, some in unique animal and other shapes. Following Munson’s departure, staff constructed walkways, damaged sacred sites and undertook ...

Learn about the history of gray wolf persecution and recovery, PEER’s unique approach using the Pittman-Robertson Act, hear from a notable scientist about the state of the science about liberalizing wolf-killing, and explore an indigenous perspective for a new vision for wolves based on ...

EPA data shows that facilities across the country are disposing of waste containing PFAS by burning or burying it in landfills, which spreads the chemicals into the air or groundwater, a good-government group said Thursday. Some PFAS-laden chemicals are also being mixed with other fuels, ...

PFAS are not regulated under RCRA, and the facilities disclosed the presence of PFAS in their waste voluntarily. The information comes from an EPA database where the chemicals have been reported through a RCRA e-manifest system tracking hazardous waste shipments. A nonprofit watchdog ...

Asked why the agency hadn’t pursued such inspections before, Regan said the metrics in place to measure unannounced inspections weren’t at satisfactory levels. He added that the pandemic “created a pause in terms of inspection levels.” But those things have been resolved and a plan ...

Criminal prosecutions against companies violating environmental laws continued to decline last year, with EPA referrals to the Department of Justice dropping to their lowest levels in more than three decades. EPA referred just 152 criminal cases to DOJ last fiscal year — a third lower ...