Trump Opens Tongass, the Nation’s Largest Intact Protected Forest, to Logging

by Courthouse News Service | October 28, 2020
“Some 16 million acres representing one of the world’s largest preserved temperate rainforests will soon be open to logging following a Wednesday announcement from the Trump administration. In August, the federal watchdog Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the ...

EPA sounds alarm on lead poisoning but still no rule update

by E&E News | October 27, 2020
“EPA promoted “National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week” on Twitter yesterday even though the agency hasn’t yet rolled out updated regulations to control lead and copper in drinking water. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has said the updated rule would be released ...

Whistleblower Seeks IG Investigation Of EPA’s Statements On Coronavirus

by Inside EPA |
“A long-time EPA scientist with a history of whistleblowing claims is asking the agency’s Inspector General (IG) “to investigate and remedy misrepresentations” by EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the survival times on surfaces of the virus that ...

Without Senate-confirmed leaders, Interior rules may be at risk

by Roll Call | October 26, 2020
“Through a series of appointments that appear to have bypassed the Appointments Clause of the Constitution and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, the officials leading those agencies — the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and the Office of Surface Mining ...

Trump team pushes nuke dumping

by NJ Today | October 25, 2020
“Many Americans alarmed over the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a worsening climate crisis, an economic disaster on par with the Great Depression, or the White House’s surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban would sleep better if they had assurances the radioactive waste disposal is ...
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