New Regional Forester Says Agency is Responding to Timber Sale Concerns

by Susan Sargent | December 28, 2018
From: KFSK “In early November Petersburg’s borough assembly voted to send a letter to the chief of the U.S. Forest Service asking for information on Tongass National Forest timber sales. The letter cites a 2016 review by staff in the Forest Service’s Washington office that detailed ...

Climate Team, and Its Boss, Just Got Harder to Find at Top Health Agency

by Susan Sargent | December 21, 2018
From: The New York Times “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly folded its Climate and Health Program into a branch that studies asthma and expunged the word climate from the name of the newly consolidated office, the agency confirmed on Thursday. An agency ...

Persecution of Top Federal Climate Scientist

by Susan Sargent | December 17, 2018
CDC Buries Climate-Health Program, Reassigns, Gags and Threatens Epidemiologist ...

Trump Moves to Gut the Clean Water Act

by Susan Sargent | December 14, 2018
From: The Nation “Now that the Trump administration’s performance at the COP 24 meeting in Poland has thoroughly trampled over climate-change protections, Trump is moving on from promoting air pollution to embark on a crusade to unleash pollution in the nation’s waters. With a ...

PEERMail: Clean Water Apocalypse

Clean Water Apocalypse Each passing week, there is mounting competition for the most damaging environmental reversal proposed by the Trump administration. This week’s contestant may be the worst yet. In 2017, Trump ordered EPA to dramatically limit the scope of the 1972 Clean Water Act, ...
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