Agriculture Poisoning the Prairie Pothole Region
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Susan Sargent | January 22, 2019
Pesticides and Pollution Runoff Imperil North America’s “Duck Factory ...
Interior Department Gaming the Shutdown
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Susan Sargent |
Staff Ordered to Perform Nonemergency Work to Serve Special Interests ...
Firm at Center of Hunters Point Fraud Scandal Rewarded With More Government Work
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Susan Sargent | January 18, 2019
From: Curbed SF “Tetra Tech, the engineering firm paid more than $250 million by the U.S. Navy to remove radioactive contamination from San Francisco’s Hunters Point has so far escaped any serious punishment, with a $7,000 fine from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission waived on ...
EPA Prosecutions Against Polluters Lowest in 30 Years
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Susan Sargent | January 17, 2019
From: Fortune “Of the 166 cases referred last year for prosecution, just 62 federal convictions were secured, the lowest since 1995. Jeff Ruch, executive director of the organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told Fortune in an email that the decline in criminal ...
EPA Prosecution of ‘Egregious’ Pollution Cases at a 30-Year Low
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Susan Sargent |
From: Courthouse News “According to Justice Department data gathered by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the EPA opened 166 criminal cases against polluters in 2018 – 60 percent less than in 2011, and 72 percent less than 1988. When asked for comment, the EPA ...
