Senator presses BLM on vacant grazing land in Washington
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Susan Sargent | September 13, 2023
“I can’t imagine that out of 40,000 acres there isn’t a sizable percentage that BLM couldn’t work with farmers and ranchers in the area to lease,” Schoesler said. Environmental organizations are looking to reduce grazing on BLM land. Western Watersheds Project ...
Guest column: The Bureau of Land Management is ignoring its most serious land-health problem
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Susan Sargent | September 8, 2023
In a recent opinion piece, Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning claims her agency has a renewed focus on land health. However, she fails to make even a single mention of the most pervasive land-health problem the agency faces: livestock-caused ecological destruction ...
US government is funding kills of endangered animals, activists say | Focusing on Wildlife
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Susan Sargent |
In a statement to the Guardian, the interior department claimed federal money is not used for the kills. Spokesperson Melissa Schwartz said the allegation that the department funded state kills was “wildly inaccurate”. But the coalition said the interior department’s statement is ...
Biden Admin Scientific Integrity Policy Falls Short, Warn Watchdogs
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Susan Sargent | September 5, 2023
Groups including Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the Government Accountability Project, and the Center for Reproductive Rights wrote to the administration to warn that both Democratic and Republican administrations have stood in the way of scientific integrity, ...
PEER: Biden revamp of scientific integrity policies ‘falls short’
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Susan Sargent |
The first revamped agency scientific integrity policy crafted under a Biden initiative leaves a lot to be desired, according to comments submitted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and a coalition of ten public health, transparency, and environmental groups. If ...
First revamped science policy falls short of fulfilling Biden’s promise to protect scientists, watchdogs say
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Susan Sargent |
The Health and Human Services Department became the first agency to publicly update its Scientific Integrity Policy, following an edict from the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy to strengthen its protections for civil servants working in science and research. HHS ...