EPA Declines to Avert Mass-Casualty Refinery Accidents
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Susan Sargent | November 5, 2019
Despite Near Misses, Agency Claims Ignorance on Hydrogen Fluoride Risks ...
Evaporating National Park Staff Levels
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Susan Sargent |
Overall Workforce Has Shrunken by More Than a Sixth Since 2011 ...
EPA Rejects Petition to Ban Chemical Used to Make Gas
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Susan Sargent |
The EPA won’t ban a chemical that oil refineries use to make high octane gasoline, jet fuel and marine diesel fuel. The Environmental Protection Agency rejected a petition that Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) had submitted asking the agency to ban hydrofluoric ...
Toxic Chemicals Can Be Dumped into Merrimack River, Federal and State Officials Say
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Susan Sargent |
“Federal and state environmental officials have renewed a controversial permit allowing a New Hampshire landfill to send as much as 100,000 gallons a day of polluted runoff to a Lowell treatment plant that empties into the Merrimack River, a source of drinking water to more than a ...
Trump Interior nominee fast-tracked a ‘deficient’ drilling permit
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Susan Sargent | November 4, 2019
Complaints of political and corporate interference have been rife at the Interior Department since Trump took office, a recent survey of 16 of the department’s most senior career employees indicates. The survey, conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based Public Employees for Environmental ...
