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Prosecution of Criminal Polluters Continues to Fall Under Trump

by The Timberjay | November 27, 2019
“REGIONAL— Criminal environmental enforcement continues to fall under the Trump Administration, according to the latest figures released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER. Prosecution of pollution crimes in fiscal year 2019 fell to levels not seen ...

Transferring Rangers to the Border Threatens Our National Parks

by Chicago Sun Times | November 26, 2019
“In the latest outrage, as USA Today reported Monday, the Trump administration has ordered rangers from national parks around the country to go fight illegal immigration and drug traffickers at the U.S.-Mexico border. That is not what rangers are trained or paid to do. They rescue ...

Trump: Park rangers will patrol Mexican border, arrest migrants

by USA Today | November 25, 2019
“There are now fewer than 1,800 law enforcement rangers watching out for nearly 320 million visitors at the nation’s 419 national park sites. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a government watchdog group, released figures Nov. 5 showing that the number of full- ...

Y’Stone Wifi Signals to Fly

by Jackson Hole News & Guide | November 25, 2019
“Yellowstone National Park officials are taking steps to bolster Wi-Fi in the park’s interior, where today signals are poor enough that employees can go to great lengths to pull off even the most mundane of tasks. A proposal on the table would result in a sweeping upgrade to Wi-Fi ...

EPA Won’t Address the Ticking Time Bomb Right Next Door

by DCReport.org | November 21, 2019
“Tens of thousands of people in our nation could die in a Bhopal-like catastrophe far worse than the 9/11 death toll of nearly 3,000 Americans. The reason is hydrofluoric acid, a chemical so dangerous that it can seep through skin and dissolve bones. Oil refineries use the acid to ...

EPA Prosecutions of Polluters Approach Quarter-Century Lows

by Associated Press | November 21, 2019
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Criminal prosecution and convictions of polluters have fallen to quarter-century lows under the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency, deepening three years of overall enforcement declines, according to Justice Department statistics. And while ...

EPA Prosecutions of Polluters Approach Quarter-Century Lows

by 9&10 News | November 21, 2019
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department figures show criminal prosecution and convictions of polluters have fallen to quarter-century lows under the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency. The figures Thursday from a Syracuse University records-tracking program show ...

Westward Heave-ho: How a Federal Agency’s Move to Colorado Threatens Public Lands, Science and the Climate

by The Revelator | November 20, 2019
“When it comes to public lands, the National Park Service has better name recognition among Americans, but it’s the Bureau of Land Management, along with the USDA’s Forest Service, that has more influence. The BLM has jurisdiction over 246 million acres — more than the Forest ...

Modern Biology and Ecology: the Roots Of America’s Assertive Illiteracy

by CounterPunch | November 19, 2019
“The 2016 election elevated Mike Pence and Betsy DeVos—major supporters of teaching creationism—to the vice presidency and leadership of the U.S. Department of Education, respectively. DeVos is a billionaire funder of efforts to pass state laws that give science teachers the ...

Wrap-Up of Federal and State Chemical Regulatory Developments, November 2019

by JD Supra | November 19, 2019
EPA Denies TSCA Section 21 Petition On Use Of Hydrofluoric Acid At Oil Refineries “On November 12, 2019, EPA proposed to deny a petition submitted under TSCA Section 21 seeking to prohibit the use of hydrofluoric acid in manufacturing processes at oil refineries. 84 Fed. Reg. 60986. ...

‘Running Out of Room’: How Old Turf Fields Raise Potential Environmental, Health Concerns

by York Daily Record | November 18, 2019
“A York Daily Record/York Sunday News investigation has found an unregulated industry that is growing exponentially and dumping several hundred old athletic fields across the U.S. every year. When those fields reach the end of their lifespan, that waste has to go somewhere. But ...

Regional Forester Expects Audit of Tongass Logging to Be Completed Soon

by KFSK | November 13, 2019
“The U.S. Forest Service’s top official in Alaska told an audience in Petersburg this month that his agency is close to finalizing an audit of the timber sale program. The watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility published those agency reviews in 2017 ...

EPA Denies Petition for TSCA Rule Prohibiting Oil Refineries from Using Hydrofluoric Acid in Manufacturing Processes

by The National Law Review | November 13, 2019
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Federal Register notice on November 12, 2019, announcing the availability of its response to a petition it received under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) from Public Employees for Environmental ...

EPA Calls Reporting on Proposed Rulemaking Update ‘Completely Misleading’

by Government Executive | November 12, 2019
On Monday, The New York Times reported a new draft of the EPA’s Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science rule that modifies a 2018 version. According to this draft, scientists would be required to disclose all of their data (including medical records) before the EPA would ...

State, Feds Ramp-Up ‘Good Neighbor’ Timber Projects

by Montana Public Radio | November 12, 2019
Jeff Ruch is the Pacific Director for the Washington D.C-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility or PEER. Ruch says, “They’re letting the state take over a significant part of the sale administration, basically letting your neighbor come in and sort your own pantry ...

250,000 gallons of runoff from NH landfill raising alarm about PFAS

by New Hampshire Union Leader | November 11, 2019
Both the New Hampshire landfill, which is owned by Waste Management, a national company, and the Madison treatment plant were operating within the bounds of their respective permits, neither of which require monitoring for PFAS. But environmental health groups said the lack of standards or ...

New Health Concerns Over Synthetic Playing Fields

by Salon | November 9, 2019
“PFAS in synthetic turf should sound alarm bells for parents and for all municipalities with these fields,” said Kyla Bennett of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “For the health of our children and communities, we urgently need to take a hard look at PFAS in ...

Why Was A ‘Sagebrush Rebel’ Hired To Run Public Lands Agency? Group Sues To Find Out

by Wyoming Public Media | November 9, 2019
A government watchdog on Wednesday filed suit against the Bureau of Land Management to find out why it hired a one-time, anti-public lands advocate to run the agency. The non-profit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, said it initially filed a public records ...

Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks Says the National Park System Deserves Better

by Sierra Sun Times | November 8, 2019
“November 8, 2019 – Phil Francis, Chair of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, released a statement in response to the recent report by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) on evaporating staff levels at the National Park Service (NPS). “ ...

Connelly: The ongoing, back door bid to commercialize our national parks

by Seattle PI | November 8, 2019
“Seriously, why is it so necessary to “boost agency revenues” and treat park campgrounds as an “under performing asset?” It’s because Trump wants to cut $481 million out of an already inadequate National Park Service budget. Public Employees for ...
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