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Novel PFAS Test Method Spurs Fresh Calls For Class-Based TSCA Rules

by Inside EPA | March 9, 2021
“Environmentalists say a new detection method for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that reveals a host of previously-unknown chemicals bolsters their call for EPA to regulate the class all at once under TSCA, warning that a piecemeal approach would stretch on for decades as ...

Livestock and deforestation in the American West

by Wildlife News | March 9, 2021
“The dawn breaks each morning on a hundred different mountain ranges in the Great Basin, with few human eyes to see it. Many of these mountain chains will be unfamiliar to most – the Toquimas, the Wah Wahs, the Goshutes, the Sheeprocks, the Fox Range – but the one thing they all ...

Watchdog Group Survey: Bureau Of Land Management Morale Is Low

by KJZZ | March 8, 2021
“A survey by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility says that employee morale in the Bureau of Land Management is low. But the agency is likely to change direction under the Biden administration. On paper, BLM policy embraces multiple uses for the millions of acres it ...

Report says Bureau of Land Management mismanaged during Trump presidency

“The Bureau of Land Management was plagued by increasing extremism, retaliation and employee intimidation, and political influence during the Trump Administration, according to a Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility anonymous survey of current and former employees. The ...

Tim Whitehouse and Kyla Bennett appear on Everyday Law podcast

by Everyday Law | March 8, 2021
On this week's episode, Bob talks with Tim Whitehouse and Kyla Bennett from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

Texas’ grid tug of war

by Politico | March 8, 2021
“EPA PURSUING PESTICIDES’ PFAS PROBLEM: EPA on Friday said it has launched an investigation into the fluorinated containers that hold commonly used pesticides and other products after initial findings suggested that they are leaching PFOA and other PFAS into the products. The ...

Decision On Whether To Keep BLM HQ In Colorado Looms For Haaland

by Aspen Public Radio | March 8, 2021
“A Senate committee vote Thursday brought Deb Haaland one step closer to becoming the nation’s next Interior secretary. If she’s confirmed she’ll face myriad big decisions, including whether to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters from Colorado back to ...

EPA investigates toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in pesticides

by The Hill | March 8, 2021
“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating the presence of toxic chemicals in pesticides, which may be coming from their plastic containers, it said on Friday. The statement comes after testing conducted by the environmental group Public Employees for Environmental ...

PFAS in pesticides: ‘A problem of epic proportions’

by E&E News | March 5, 2021
“”Forever chemicals” are present in multiple common pesticides, according to new testing conducted by an environmental watchdog group and released exclusively to E&E News. The testing done by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) found per- and ...

Employees speak out on Trump’s detrimental reorganization of BLM

by Missoula Current | March 5, 2021
“Bureau of Land Management employees say that after four years of abuse, the agency needs to be rebuilt before it can carry out its mission of sustainable multiple-use. In the meantime, the resource management plans for the Missoula and Lewistown BLM offices also need major changes. ...

Confirm Haaland and let work on BLM begin

by Daily Sentinel | March 2, 2021
“Last week the Sentinel’s Dennis Webb covered the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s grilling of Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next secretary of the Interior. Our interest in the confirmation hearing was weighted heavily by the ...

Undoing Trump’s threat to endangered North American right whales

by DC Report | March 1, 2021
“Trump’s National Marine Fisheries Service was regulating right whales toward extinction as the whales literally starved to death while entangled in fishing gear. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “has powerful tools to protect the North American ...

Inside Biden’s uphill battle to restore the EPA after Trump

by Grist | March 1, 2021
“Laws are only as good as their enforcement. During his four years in office, former President Donald Trump’s appointees to the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, decimated the agency’s ability to catch and penalize polluters breaking environmental rules. As a result of ...

Drake is Closing – Now What?

by Peak Environment Podcast | March 1, 2021
“What can you do to create a sustainable, just, and carbon-free city? Hear what’s next in the closure of the fossil-fuel powered Martin Drake Power Plant in Colorado Springs, and learn about three local campaigns on which you can take action. This is audio from a live webinar held ...

Former Wyoming BLM director: ‘Restore better’ national office in D.C.

by Grand Junction Sentinel | February 26, 2021
“A former Bureau of Land Management state director for Wyoming on Thursday called on the Biden administration to “restore a better national (BLM) office to the Washington, D.C., area” following the move of the agency’s headquarters to Grand Junction last year. “The move of ...

Advocates Say EPA Ignored Popular Fumigant’s Cancer Risks

by Law360 | February 25, 2021
“An advocacy group on Thursday asked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s watchdog to examine why the agency proposed to downgrade the human health risks associated with a commonly used fumigant,… ” Read the PEER Story… ...

BLM morale tanked under Trump, survey finds

by E&E News | February 25, 2021
“A former senior Bureau of Land Management official and the results of a recent anonymous survey of current and recently retired BLM employees reveal that the bureau’s relocation plan completed last year left staffers demoralized and uncertain about its future. The recently ...

State regulator’s negotiations with Boeing about Santa Susana cleanup sparks criticism

by Los Angeles Daily News | February 25, 2021
“A state department agency that oversees the cleanup of toxic Santa Susana Field lab met confidentially with Boeing Company, one of the polluters, to mediate the cleanup of the area in the hills above the San Fernando and Simi valleys, drawing criticism from a Ventura County ...

Environmental Group Charges EPA With Ignoring Evidence of Cancer

by The Intercept | February 25, 2021
“An assessment of a pesticide that the Environmental Protection Agency issued last year is fraudulent, according to a complaint the environmental group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility submitted to the EPA’s Office of Inspector General today. The complaint accuses ...

More than 300 Florida manatees dead in first six weeks of 2021

by Oceanographic Magazine | February 24, 2021
“According to recent state statistics posted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the first six weeks of 2021 have seen extremely high mortality rates of Florida’s manatees. Between January 1 and February 12, 2021, 317 manatees have died, according to  ...
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