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A new lawsuit accuses the Bureau of Land Management of often failing to do required environmental reviews of grazing permits in Colorado and other western states, particularly in areas in western Colorado and elsewhere where grazing can potentially impact species such as sage-grouse and ...

A lawsuit accuses the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of failing to perform required grazing permit reviews across the West, with the worst lapses occurring in Nevada. About 15 million acres in Nevada that did undergo a review failed to meet federal standards due to damage caused by ...

Florida Today recently reported on the under-punishment of pollution in Florida. It pointed to findings reported by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) that, “Thirty-four years of Florida environmental enforcement data … depict an enforcement program in crisis ...

The allegations of mismanagement follow Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility’s filing of a whistleblower complaint against the BLM last month after a rangeland manager in the San Luis Valley said her bosses were failing to enforce illegal grazing on land near the Rio ...

The US Bureau of Land Management failed to complete environmental analyses for thousands of commercial livestock grazing allotments, conservation groups alleged in a federal complaint. The BLM has issued 35,000 grazing permits covering 155 million acres across 13 Western states, but didn ...

But according to a letter sent to HHS this month by 11 advocacy organizations, the draft policy would do little to stem what has become a systemic problem in key federal agencies whose work is supposed to protect the public but too often is swayed by political and/or corporate interests ...