Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Points To NPS Morale Issues
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Elizabeth Duan | December 19, 2023
Insights into morale issues within the National Park Service are contained in the latest Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, which points to concerns with leadership as well as unsustainable workloads. “We know we still have room for improvement,” Park Service Director Chuck ...
Status hearing set Jan. 5 in suit against EPA over Oak Ridge landfill
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Elizabeth Duan |
A federal court wants to know more, by Jan. 5, about a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by a citizens group seeking access to some U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents about a radioactive waste landfill at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge… Read the PEER Story ...
Timothy Whitehouse on the Corporate Capture of the EPA Chemicals and Pesticides Program
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Elizabeth Duan |
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is maneuvering to shirk much of its responsibility for addressing the PFAS contamination crisis by narrowing the definition of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) it will use. That’s according to a report released recently from Public ...
Watchdog: BLM not enforcing prairie chicken protections
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Elizabeth Duan |
A watchdog group says the Bureau of Land Management has allowed energy companies to sidestep timing restrictions and develop inside-buffer zones designed to protect the imperiled lesser prairie chicken in New Mexico. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, says records ...
Merit systems board sides with USGS scientist in whistleblower case
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Elizabeth Duan |
The Merit Systems Protection Board on Monday upheld a judge’s ruling that the U.S. Geological Survey unlawfully retaliated against an agency-scientist-turned-whistleblower. In a two-judge decision, the board largely sided with the judge’s ruling in favor of Eveline (Evi) ...