Making Waves: Delegate Cites PTP Investigation in Op-Ed
In an op-ed published on SoMdNews.com, Maryland delegate Peter F. Murphy (District 28), highlighted a Public Trust Project investigation that found that Omega Protein had hired hundreds of foreign...
View ArticleOil Companies Vastly Underreport Size of Spills
In November 2012, BP agreed to pay $4.5 billion in fines and plead guilty to criminal charges related to the Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster. As part of their plea agreement, company executives...
View ArticleIt Once Swam with Dinosaurs, but is This 800-Pound Fish Now Doomed?
Washingtonians might not realize it, but a 150-million-year-old species is slipping into oblivion right under their noses. Atlantic sturgeon, the pointy-snouted giant that can reach lengths of 14 feet...
View ArticlePirate Fishermen Running Wild on the High Seas
Modern-day pirates might not look like Captain Jack Sparrow from Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean, but they do charter ships across the world’s oceans, stealing and plundering a valuable resource that...
View ArticleWill Maryland Give its Farmers a Pollution Pass?
Maryland lawmakers are debating a bill that could amount to a pollution pass for farmers in the state. The “Agricultural Certainty” bill would excuse participating farmers from new state and local...
View ArticleChromium, Cigarettes, Coal and Climate: Science Integrity Watch, March 25th
Experts who helped the State Department draft a report that downplayed the environmental impact of the Keystone XL pipeline were found to have previously worked for TransCanada, the company attempting...
View ArticleThe Birds and the Bees at Risk?: Science Integrity Watch, April 1
Editor’s Note: Until 2009, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) published an important weekly digest of news called “Integrity in Science Watch.” Journalist Merrill Goozner aggregated...
View ArticleOmega Protein Makes Good on Threat to Cut Jobs, but it Doesn’t Have To
Omega Protein employs 250 people in Reedville, VA, mostly factory workers and fishermen who net Atlantic menhaden, taking whole schools of the small, oily fish from the ocean and grinding them into...
View ArticleFowling the Bay?: Media Reports Absolving Poultry Industry of Pollution are...
Good news about the health of the Chesapeake Bay is rare, which might explain the media flurry surrounding new research that suggests pollution from poultry farms isn’t so bad after all....
View ArticleHas the Atlantic Fisheries Commission Industry-Proofed its Scientific...
Scientists in charge of determining how many menhaden are in the Atlantic Ocean will convene this week under a fresh set of public participation guidelines. The new rules outline clear procedures for...
View ArticleFeds Propose Limited Immunity for Water Polluters
Agriculture is the largest contributor to water pollution in the U.S., dumping millions of pounds of nitrogen and phosphorous into the nation’s waterways each year. But as the problem worsens and...
View ArticleThe Fish at the Heart of the Food System
By Alison Fairbrother and David Schleifer You have never seen a menhaden, but you have eaten one. Although no one sits down to a plate of these silvery, bug-eyed, foot-long fish at a seafood...
View ArticleThe Race to Save the Chesapeake Bay: New Investigation in the Washington...
The following original Public Trust Project investigation appeared in the March 1, 2014 issue of the Washington Spectator. On a brilliant fall day, Stan Pennington and Eric Hines ride out in a...
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