From: Common Dreams “Amid the chaos of the ongoing government shutdown and winter holidays, critics on Monday are calling out the Trump administration for quietly moving to make it harder for the public to find out what goes on behind closed doors at the U.S. Department of the Interior. ...

From: CBS 4 Miami “As 2018 comes to a close, it’s been a bad year of Florida’s manatee population with the second highest number of deaths ever recorded. According to preliminary figures posted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), more than 800 manatees died ...

WOTUS History The federal Clean Water Act  (CWA) was passed in 1972 in order to eliminate discharges of pollutants into navigable waters without a permit. The CWA tasks the EPA with prohibiting “the discharge of any pollutant” to navigable waters from any point source. The term “ ...

From: Alaska Public Media “If I were a wolf or a bear in Alaska right now, I would be headed for the Canadian border, ASAP,” said Rick Steiner, an environmental advocate and former marine conservation professor in Anchorage. Among Steiner’s concerns was the hiring of Grasser as the ...

More Than One-Seventh of Population Perished as Red Tide Mortality Tripled ...