A New Era for the Bureau of Land Management
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Elizabeth Duan | March 13, 2021
“What steps can the Biden administration take to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Bureau of Land Management to better address its conservation and climate change goals? This question was addressed in a lively online discussion hosted by PEER (Public Employees for ...
State Waste Officials Back Superfund Law Class Designation For PFAS
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Elizabeth Duan | March 12, 2021
“State waste regulators say the lack of federal regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is hindering their efforts to clean up the chemicals, and they are calling for EPA to designate the entire class of thousands of PFAS as “hazardous substances” under the ...
Novel PFAS Test Method Spurs Fresh Calls For Class-Based TSCA Rules
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Elizabeth Duan | 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
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Elizabeth Duan |
“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
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Elizabeth Duan | 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 ...