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Feds sued over Old Spanish Trail management

by Daily Sentinel | December 10, 2024
The suit points in part to the Bureau of Land Management recently providing for only a 50-meter trail buffer when it comes to surface disturbances related to oil and gas leasing in its amended resource management plan for the Grand Junction Field Office. Plaintiffs in the suit include ...

Lawsuit alleges federal agencies failed to protect Old Spanish National Historic Trail

by KNAU | December 10, 2024
Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., alleging the federal government has failed to protect the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. The suit alleges that the U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management ...

Lawsuit aims to protect historic Old Spanish Trail from ‘eco-assault’ in Nevada, across Southwest

by 8 News Now | December 10, 2024
A Nevada conservation group is among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed on Monday, Dec. 9, that aims to protect the historic Old Spanish Trail as development spreads into remote regions in the Southwest. The lawsuit alleges failure to provide a comprehensive management plan, arguing the ...

Their Fertilizer Poisons Farmland. Now, They Want Protection From Lawsuits.

by New York Times | December 6, 2024
But critics point to research that for years has detected PFAS in wastewater. Recent studies have also explored how the chemicals can move from the soil into water and plants, and then to the livestock that feed on them. Regarding Synagro, “it seems crazy to be able to say they’re a ...

Trump moves spark fear of brain drain at environment agencies

by The Hill | December 5, 2024
Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said his group is hearing from some workers that they may leave the federal workforce out of concern that their jobs may no longer be stable. “If they were uncertain about whether to retire now or ...

Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with “forever chemicals” poisoned their land and killed their livestock

by The Texas Tribune | December 2, 2024
But nobody knows how much of that fertilizer is contaminated with PFAS, which can be absorbed by crops, consumed by livestock, and then enter the food supply. There are no requirements to test biosolids for PFAS, or to warn farmers and ranchers that they could be using contaminated ...

Trump allies begin attack on EPA and rules protecting US drinking water

by The Guardian | December 2, 2024
The Republicans promptly moving to shred the integrity policies – which critics say were weak to begin with – demonstrates how party officials are “bending over backwards” to assist Trump in attacking career servants, said Jeff Ruch, a former EPA official now with the Public ...

Colorado’s process of creating PFAS bans could offer insights for New Mexico

by Santa Fe New Mexican | December 2, 2024
Kyla Bennett, director of science policy for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said PFAS regulations are popping up in states around the nation. States are bearing the brunt of the cost of PFAS contamination, Bennett said, and she thinks the federal government isn’t ...

Vers une restructuration profonde de l’Etat fédéral américain

by Radio Télévision Suisse | November 14, 2024
Tim Whitehouse discusses with Radio Télévision Suisse the impact of Donald Trump’s election on the federal workforce and what the incoming Trump administration’s agenda for the environment and public health. Read the PEER Story… ...

There is orange water in Wilson County. Who will clean it up?

by News Channel 5 Nashville | November 14, 2024
You don’t need to be a scientist to notice that something is going on at this site near The Paddocks shopping center in Mt. Juliet: The water is fuzzy and orange and it’s been the subject of litigation spanning more than a decade. The developer says it’s done its best to clean up a ...

Trump may entrench DC Circuit’s stunning NEPA ruling

by E&E News | November 13, 2024
Peter Jenkins, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, who represented Marin Audubon Society in the case, said he had only expected a few people in the Bay Area to be interested in the court ruling. “The focus of the case, it was not about the CEQ ...

EPA staff fear Trump will destroy how it protects Americans from pollution

by The Guardian | November 11, 2024
The EPA currently has more than 16,000 employees, adding more than 6,000 during Joe Biden’s administration as the agency sought to rebuild. During Biden’s term, the agency stepped up enforcement of pollution rules, banned toxic pesticides, bolstered chemical safety protections, and ...

Trump seeks to relocate 100K federal employees, doubling down on first-term playbook

by Federal News Network | November 7, 2024
PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse, a former senior attorney at the Environmental Protection Agency, said agencies have more freedom to relocate members of the career Senior Executive Service, compared to rank-and-file federal employees. “They can move SES employees and their ...

Beyond Schedule F, Trump has ‘arsenal’ of ways to target federal employees

by Federal News Network | November 6, 2024
Congress passed the Administrative Leave Act to put tighter restrictions on how long agencies can put their employees on paid administrative or investigative leave. But OPM is more than seven years late in providing guidance to agencies on how to implement the legislation. Public Employees ...

Biosolids and PFAS questions are rippling to other states after Maine’s land application ban

by Waste Dive | November 4, 2024
Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, is representing farmers who are suing EPA to force regulation of PFAS in biosolids. Bennett said the “patchwork approach” to regulation employed so far won’t work because the pollution can ...

EPA and Internal Watchdog Trade Barbs Over Fraud Investigations

by Bloomberg Law | October 30, 2024
Still, a breakdown in the relationship between the EPA and its watchdog increases the chances that people and the environment will suffer, said Jeff Ruch, Pacific director of the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Ultimately, the inspector general can’t ...

Local rancher seeks answers on biosolids after Johnson County investigation

by Wise County Messenger | October 30, 2024
One water well yielded PFAS levels measured at 268.2 ppt while one of the ponds had over 1,333 ppt of PFAS. The flesh of a stillborn calf tested at 610,000 ppt of PFOS, according to PEER’s analysis of the testing results, which was released in February. Two catfish tested had 74,000 and ...

How Trump 2.0 and Project 2025 could reshape chemical rules

by E&E News | October 25, 2024
Former members of the Trump administration say that EPA under his watch laid the groundwork for the Biden administration’s efforts to address PFAS contamination. But health advocates say the Trump administration downplayed the risks of the chemicals, was slow to take action on PFAS and ...

Township BOE Makes Progress on Turf Field

by The Retrospect | October 24, 2024
Furthermore, stormwater now must stay onsite for a certain period of time to minimize flooding in a vault or a tank, which will increase the project’s costs. Downie and Farrell explained that the drainage system is under the field. “The only way it’s going to get into the drainage ...

Arizona is launching PFAS mitigation efforts ahead of the EPA deadline. But critics say it isn’t enough

by Cronkite News | October 23, 2024
At last count, water systems with levels of PFAS above Environmental Protection Agency standards are serving between 83 and 105 million people throughout the country, according to the EPA. Arizona already has eight projects underway to address this issue. “To continue to allow Americans ...
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