Loophole Lets DOL Install Wage Chief While Nomination Is Pending
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Susan Sargent | August 2, 2022
Courts have split on whether these arrangements are legal. Separate rulings in Gianforte v. Bureau of Land Management at the US District Court for the District of Montana and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility v. the National Park Service at the US District Court for the ...
BLM gives final OK to American Prairie bison grazing plans; GOP politicians vow to fight
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Susan Sargent | August 1, 2022
As the state’s cattle industry and pro-agriculture politicians have taken aim at the BLM for what it sees as its pro-American Prairie decision, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has charged the federal agency has given commercial livestock grazing a pass when it comes ...
National parks won’t meet the deadline to fix loud plane tours, watchdog group says
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Susan Sargent |
An environmental nonprofit won a court judgment regulating helicopter and plane noise over national parks in 2020, but most parks have yet to comply with the judgment. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has pressured the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Park ...
EPA Whistleblowers Provide New Evidence of Ongoing Failure to Assess Dangerous Chemicals
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Susan Sargent |
According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the organization that’s representing the whistleblowers, the statements may be a violation of the law. “I hope that the inspector general evaluates whether these false statement are violations of the criminal statute,” ...
National Park Service Challenges Mandated E-Bike Rule Review
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Susan Sargent | July 26, 2022
The National Park Service will ask the D.C. Circuit to overturn a judge’s finding that its rule allowing the use of e-bikes within the parks system needs further environmental review, according to a notice filed in a Washington, D.C., federal court. The agency’s final rule issued in ...
Florida City Sued by Water Quality Whistleblower
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Susan Sargent |
The plaintiff resorted to disclosing the water quality problems to the press and a non-profit environmental group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, due to the City’s alleged willful ignorance; these disclosures eventually led to the Florida Department of Health’s ...