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Federal grazing fee to stay at lowest allowable level

by Susan Sargent | February 28, 2023
For the fifth straight year, ranchers will pay the lowest allowable amount for grazing livestock on federal land in the West. The Western Watersheds Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility recently criticized the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service for ...

‘Nobody has answers’: Ohio residents fearful of health risks near train site

by Susan Sargent | February 24, 2023
Experts speculated the EPA may not be testing for dioxins because the process is expensive and difficult. A cleanup would also be costly, but the agency has said Norfolk Southern will be forced to pay. Meanwhile, the EPA and state regulators have a history of “false all clears” that ...

Biden administration accused of creating ‘gag policy’ for scientific research

by Susan Sargent | February 23, 2023
Nowak, now a University of Georgia professor, adds that transparency among government scientists is especially important because their salaries are paid for with taxpayer dollars. He argues that such a policy has no discernible upside but many significant downsides. He’s not alone. ...

Citing birds and bees, groups petition EPA to close pesticide loophole

by Susan Sargent | February 22, 2023
The U.S. should overhaul regulation of a class of insecticides tied to excessive honey bee and bird deaths, according to a citizen petition filed Wednesday with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by a coalition of more than 60 nonprofit groups. Specifically, the groups are ...

Group asks UAlbany to investigate ‘wrongful retaliatory action’ against PCB researcher

by Susan Sargent | February 21, 2023
A group that promotes environmental integrity among public employees filed a complaint with the state University at Albany on Tuesday urging the school’s Senate to investigate what it called “wrongful retaliatory actions” against Dr. David O. Carpenter, the longtime ...

Biden’s Myopic Approach to Scientific Integrity

by Susan Sargent | February 19, 2023
Just a week after his inauguration nearly two years ago, President Joe Biden issued an all-agency directive to strengthen the scientific integrity policies commissioned under former President Barack Obama and that had proven to be utterly ineffectual during the “alternative facts&# ...
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