New Framework to Standardize Government Science Policies, Keep Politics at Bay
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Susan Sargent | February 14, 2023
However, some say the framework does not go far enough. GovExec reports Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) says the administration made a mistake “in not identifying specific, new procedures to guarantee career scientists would not face retaliation for presenting ...
EPA’s biggest union to warn Congress of ‘staffing crisis’
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Susan Sargent | February 13, 2023
Union members plan to meet with lawmakers between Monday and Wednesday in what they are calling a “lobbying blitz.” On Tuesday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) will speak at an AFGE rally, while on Wednesday, more than 40 employees will hold another rally outside the EPA headquarters ...
Pressure mounts over plastic company’s ‘forever chemicals’
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Susan Sargent |
Environmental advocates are cranking up pressure on regulators amid a high profile “forever chemicals” crisis that has implicated a plastics company. Two groups — the Center for Environmental Health and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility — called on the ...
Study: States And NPS Need To Reach Cooperative Goals On Wolves
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Susan Sargent | February 12, 2023
The study, which appeared in the January 17 edition of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (attached below), followed by a handful of years a wolf study in Yukon-Charley Rivers that was forced to end in 2016 because the Alaska Department of Fish and Game had sponsored a predator ...
Minnesota power co-op wants to invest in flexibility for fossil fuel peaker plant
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Susan Sargent | February 10, 2023
Clean Up The River Environment, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations note that burning fuel oil instead of natural gas will increase particulate matter, mercury, lead, carcinogenic diesel exhaust and arsenic. Hudson ...
Biden administration’s rule for federal scientists is a ‘gag order’, critics say
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Susan Sargent |
The Biden administration has proposed what some critics label a “gag order” on federal scientists in the US that would largely bar them from publicly discussing their research, and could effectively prohibit them from taking part in controversial studies on issues like the climate ...