MOFGA to sue federal government over forever chemicals in sludge used as fertilizer

by Maine Public Radio | May 14, 2024
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association announced Tuesday that it plans to sue federal regulators over the issue of forever chemicals in sludge. MOFGA says it intends to sue the EPA under the Clean Water Act. The organization plans to work with Public Employees for ...

MOFGA threatens to sue EPA over lack of PFAS sludge regulation

Maine’s reckoning with the legacy of “forever chemicals” on its agricultural land may expand to federal court this summer. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association filed a notice of intent May 14 to sue the United States Environmental Protection Agency, alleging it failed ...

BLM Veteran Calls Out Diminishing Range Protection

by Ark Valley Voice | May 11, 2024
One of the Bureau of Land Management’s most senior range specialists has announced that she is leaving the agency reportedly “in disgust” over its declining ability and willingness to protect the lands entrusted to it. Her exit memo was posted today by Public Employees for ...

Manchin’s choice: Who will be the No. 2 at Interior?

by E&E News | May 10, 2024
Energy and Natural Resources Chair Joe Manchin once blocked Laura Daniel-Davis’ rise to a top Interior Department post, but now he could opt — without having to take any action at all — to let her retain the agency’s No. 2 post for the duration of the Biden administration. ...

BLM ignores illegal grazing, fears ‘another Bundy situation,’ ex-staffer says

by E&E News | May 9, 2024
A former Bureau of Land Management staffer who retired last week after 32 years with the agency issued a scathing exit memo warning that the 2014 armed standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has frightened bureau leadership away from stopping illegal grazing. The result is that untold ...
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