PFAS in pesticides: ‘A problem of epic proportions’

by Elizabeth Duan | March 5, 2021
“”Forever chemicals” are present in multiple common pesticides, according to new testing conducted by an environmental watchdog group and released exclusively to E&E News. The testing done by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) found per- and ...

Employees speak out on Trump’s detrimental reorganization of BLM

“Bureau of Land Management employees say that after four years of abuse, the agency needs to be rebuilt before it can carry out its mission of sustainable multiple-use. In the meantime, the resource management plans for the Missoula and Lewistown BLM offices also need major changes. ...

Confirm Haaland and let work on BLM begin

by Elizabeth Duan | March 2, 2021
“Last week the Sentinel’s Dennis Webb covered the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s grilling of Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next secretary of the Interior. Our interest in the confirmation hearing was weighted heavily by the ...

Undoing Trump’s threat to endangered North American right whales

by Elizabeth Duan | March 1, 2021
“Trump’s National Marine Fisheries Service was regulating right whales toward extinction as the whales literally starved to death while entangled in fishing gear. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “has powerful tools to protect the North American ...

Inside Biden’s uphill battle to restore the EPA after Trump

“Laws are only as good as their enforcement. During his four years in office, former President Donald Trump’s appointees to the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, decimated the agency’s ability to catch and penalize polluters breaking environmental rules. As a result of ...
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