Democrats Want Answers About the Interior Department’s Decisions During the Shutdown

by Susan Sargent | January 28, 2019
From: Think Progress “The use of entrance fees to keep national parks open, along with a sudden decision to bring back department employees to work on offshore drilling and related tasks, have come under fire from House Democrats and environmental groups — they argue Acting Interior ...

Trump’s EPA Has a Light Touch When it Comes to Punishing Polluters

From: Salon “Over the last two decades, according to the report, EPA civil penalties averaged more than $500 million a year (an average adjusted for inflation). The last fiscal year was nearly 85 percent below that, at $72 million. Barack Obama’s former EPA assistant administrator ...

Florida Panthers Pad Toward Extinction

2018 Another High Lethality Year as Deaths Increasingly Outpace Declining Births ...

Formaldehyde Controversy Raises Concerns For Retailers Over EPA’s Future Review And Regulation Of Chemicals And Associated Litigation Risk

by Susan Sargent | January 25, 2019
From: Mondaq “Industry groups have met with EPA and have publicly expressed concerns that the updated risk assessment will be merely a “restructuring” of the original draft and will still suffer from the same scientific and methodological defects previously identified by the ...
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