Trump Admin Touts Children’s Health Programs Amid Questions About Ousting Top Scientist

by Susan Sargent | October 2, 2018
From: ABCNews “”Children’s health is a top priority at EPA, and we have made tremendous progress improving air and water quality and helping kids and families lead healthier lives,” Wheeler said in a statement Monday. Advocacy groups, however, say they have doubts about the ...

Drinking Water for Third of U.S. in Legal Tug-Of-War

by Susan Sargent | September 29, 2018
On-Again Off-Again Clean Water Rule Protects Both Water Quality and Quantity ...

EPA Makes Changes at Research, Child Health Offices

by Susan Sargent | September 28, 2018
From: CNN “Michael Halpern with the Union of Concerned Scientists, which has opposed other Trump administration moves, said combining the offices would bury a once-influential position “deep inside one specific part of EPA.” In past administrations, the science advisor has ...

US Government Officials Visit, Learn About Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

From: Char-Koosta News “CSKT employees were escorted off the National Bison Range by armed officials and locked out pending an investigation of the claims. CSKT Vice Chairman Leonard Grey worked as a volunteer at the time and recalled his experience to Sweeney. “It was truly an insult ...

US Advocacy Group Sues EPA over Unreleased Formaldehdye IRIS Assessment

by Susan Sargent | September 27, 2018
From: Chemical Watch “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a US alliance of state and federal professionals, is suing the US EPA for failing to respond to a public records request related to an assessment of formaldehyde. The claim relates to an unreleased revised ...
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