Colorado air agency’s policies ‘inadequate,’ but no evidence of falsified data, report says
by Colorado Newsline | September 24, 2021
“Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Friday released the results of an independent investigation into allegations of illegal air-quality permitting procedures made earlier this year by three whistleblowers in the state’s Air Pollution Control Division. Kevin Bell, an attorney ...
EPA Urged to Stop Use of Misbranded “Minimum Risk” Pesticides, Step Up Oversight and Enforcement
by Beyond Pesticides | September 22, 2021
“Health and environmental organizations are urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state pesticide regulators to immediately stop the use and sale of dangerous and misbranded Eco-MIGHT and W.O.W. (Whack Out Weeds!) products, falsely labeled as 25(b) minimum risk. ...
Valuable crab populations in Alaska’s warming Bering Sea waters are in a ‘very scary’ decline
by Anchorage Daily News | September 21, 2021
“Federal biologist Erin Fedewa boarded a research vessel in June in Dutch Harbor, and journeyed to a swath of the Bering Sea that typically yields an abundance of young snow crab in annual surveys. Not this summer. At this spot, and elsewhere, the sampling nets came up with ...
USGS ignores cattle in study on wild horse impacts — report
by E&E News | September 20, 2021
“A nonprofit watchdog group says a recent peer-reviewed study led by the U.S. Geological Survey overstates the harm caused by wild horses to greater sage grouse habitat and ignores data showing that livestock grazing has a significant impact on the bird. Public Employees for ...
Environmental group blasts Interior for ignoring cattle impacts and blaming wild horses for public land damage
“The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is failing to apply its own data about the growing adverse impacts of livestock grazing on Western public lands and is instead blaming wild horses for land degradation, according to a new analysis released today by Public Employees for ...