by FSEEE | Aug 28, 2023 | Action Alert
We need your help to stop the Forest Service from polluting invaluable water resources with aerial fire retardant. While our lawsuit has forced the Forest Service to apply for a permit as required by the Clean Water Act, members of Congress have introduced legislation...
by FSEEE | Jul 4, 2023 | Fire Truth, FSEEE in the News
FSEEE is featured on the front page of the July 3 issue of the Los Angeles Times in Hayley Smith’s article about fire retardant. Smith accurately points out some of the problems with Phos-Chek, the widely used red retardant that contains ammonium phosphate....
by FSEEE | Apr 29, 2023 | FSEEE in the News
Peter O’Dowd recently interviewed FSEEE Executive Director Andy Stahl about our aerial fire retardant lawsuit on Here & Now, a live news broadcast produced by National Public Radio and Boston radio station WBUR. The Forest Service admits that its use of fire...
by FSEEE | Jan 6, 2023 | Inside FSEEE
Declines to reduce usage of the chemical pollutant The preliminary response to FSEEE’s fire retardant lawsuit acknowledges that the Forest Service is acting illegally but then “denies each and every allegation of the [FSEEE] Complaint.” The FSEEE lawsuit alleges...
by FSEEE | Nov 24, 2022 | FSEEE in the News
Alex Wilson, reporting for VC Reporter, recently covered our lawsuit against the Forest Service challenging its use of aerial fire retardant. He writes, “When environmental activist Andy Stahl heard that last month’s battle to extinguish the Howard Fire in the...