Transferring Rangers to the Border Threatens Our National Parks
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Susan Sargent | November 26, 2019
“In the latest outrage, as USA Today reported Monday, the Trump administration has ordered rangers from national parks around the country to go fight illegal immigration and drug traffickers at the U.S.-Mexico border. That is not what rangers are trained or paid to do. They rescue ...
Trump: Park rangers will patrol Mexican border, arrest migrants
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Susan Sargent | November 25, 2019
“There are now fewer than 1,800 law enforcement rangers watching out for nearly 320 million visitors at the nation’s 419 national park sites. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a government watchdog group, released figures Nov. 5 showing that the number of full- ...
Y’Stone Wifi Signals to Fly
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Susan Sargent |
“Yellowstone National Park officials are taking steps to bolster Wi-Fi in the park’s interior, where today signals are poor enough that employees can go to great lengths to pull off even the most mundane of tasks. A proposal on the table would result in a sweeping upgrade to Wi-Fi ...
Federal Pollution Prosecutions Continue to Fall
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Susan Sargent | November 21, 2019
EPA Criminal Enforcement Program Continues to Shrivel under Trump ...
EPA Won’t Address the Ticking Time Bomb Right Next Door
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Susan Sargent |
“Tens of thousands of people in our nation could die in a Bhopal-like catastrophe far worse than the 9/11 death toll of nearly 3,000 Americans. The reason is hydrofluoric acid, a chemical so dangerous that it can seep through skin and dissolve bones. Oil refineries use the acid to ...