Broad Coalition Applauds House Judiciary Committee for Whistleblower Protections
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Susan Sargent | March 16, 2022
We, the undersigned organizations, represent a broad cohort of civil society groups, each with our own perspectives and ideological preferences on a wide range of public policy issues. However, we all share a commitment to protecting government whistleblowers as a key means of promoting a ...
EPA: ‘Forever chemicals’ in pesticide barrels may be illegal
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Susan Sargent |
EPA has been investigating the container issue since last December, when the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility found elevated levels of PFAS in pesticides sprayed in Massachusetts, including Anvil 10+10, a widely used mosquito repellent (E&E News PM, Jan ...
Garland guidance urges agencies to release more docs
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Susan Sargent |
Kevin Bell, staff counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said agencies haven’t been following the standard either. “It really has become a box-checking exercise,” Bell told E&E News. “I don’t think this memo helps too much with that ...
Federal union ask high court to review PolyMet ruling
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Susan Sargent |
A Ramsey County district court judge had earlier faulted the MPCA’s actions but did not find that the agency had violated any law and that the action did not, by itself, warrant reversing the permit. The Court of Appeals had agreed with that assessment, a decision which several ...
Environmentalists Urge EPA To Add Food Exposures To Cleanup Factors
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Susan Sargent | March 15, 2022
The government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) led the letter, which was also signed by Natural Resources Defense Council, California Communities Against Toxics, and Committee to Bridge the Gap (CBG), among others. CBG previously raised the issue ...
There are millions of acres of ‘failing’ rangelands, data shows
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Susan Sargent | March 14, 2022
The BLM oversees 246 million acres of land — the vast majority of it in the Western U.S. The agency’s mission is to “sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations,” but according to records obtained by ...