by FSEEE | Oct 5, 2023 | FSEEE in the News
Susannah Frame with KING 5 News, Seattle’s NBC affiliate, interviewed FSEEE Executive Director Andy Stahl for an in-depth feature on aerial fire retardant. Frame also spoke with Vertis Campbell of the Colville Tribe and Brandon Miller, CEO of GreenFire, which...
by FSEEE | Jul 30, 2023 | Fire Truth, FSEEE in the News
The Jefferson Exchange: The cavalry, or the contaminator? The debate over tankers dropping fire retardant FSEEE Executive Director Andy Stahl recently spoke about aerial fire retardant on Jefferson Public Radio in an extended interview with Geoffrey Riley, host of The...
by Andy Stahl | May 20, 2023 | Fire Truth, Sound Off
With “water, water, everywhere,” the Forest Service still cannot rid itself of the fire retardant albatross around its neck. Ten years ago, in a study commissioned by the Forest Service, the Rand Corporation published Air Attack Against Wildfires: Understanding U.S....
by FSEEE | Mar 31, 2023 | FSEEE in the News
Alex Wigglesworth, environment reporter with the Los Angeles Times, wrote a good news story about our fire retardant lawsuit. “As the use of aerially delivered retardant has soared in recent years,” she writes, “some forest advocates say the...
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 | Oct 17, 2022 | FSEEE in the News
FSEEE’s recently filed lawsuit — which seeks to stop the Forest Service from polluting waterways with aerial fire retardant and force the agency to adhere to the Clean Water Act — has received a flurry of media attention. E&E News characterizes our lawsuit...
by FSEEE | Oct 13, 2022 | Inside FSEEE
Sixty days have passed since FSEEE delivered a notice of intent to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service for its use of fire retardant in violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Forest Service has not responded, so we have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District...
by FSEEE | Jul 3, 2022 | FSEEE in the News
FSEEE Executive Director Andy Stahl’s criticism of aerial fire retardant use by the Forest Service went out on the Associated Press newswire in an article written by Keith Ridler. Timothy Ingalsbee, executive director of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics,...
by Andy Stahl | Jun 6, 2022 | Sound Off
The Forest Service is supplementing its aerial fire retardant environmental impact statement that FSEEE’s lawsuits forced to be written in 2011. Those cases imposed no-drop zones around water and rare plant critical habitat. Fire retardant is the red slurry dumped...
by FSEEE | Sep 30, 2021 | FSEEE in the News
Autumn Spanne with Environmental Health News recently spoke with FSEEE Executive Director Andy Stahl about the increasing use of fire retardant in the western U.S. Spanne’s article cites a significant increase in aerial wildfire retardant use — 90 million...
