Unregulated Corrosive 9/11 Dust Lands EPA in Court
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Susan Sargent | January 17, 2022
That was a critical danger facing first responders who arrived at the World Trade Center in September 2001 without health warnings or any personal protective equipment. The PEER lawsuit seeks a 10-fold tightening of the alkaline level of wastes classified as “corrosive” and thus “ ...
Spanberger leading effort to prevent insider trading by members of Congress
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Susan Sargent | January 16, 2022
“In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the public react to accusations of insider trading by lawmakers — not with shock, but with a shrug. The perception of insider trading itself, let alone the practice of it, by members of Congress is damaging to our democracy,” said ...
Roy: The largest-ever wild horse roundup has resumed in Wyoming, but who does it benefit?
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Susan Sargent | January 15, 2022
The 3.8-million-member Sierra Club has called out the BLM’s bias against wild horses in resource allocation and called for the removal of livestock from designated wild horse habitat areas instead of removing horses. Other groups, including Western Watersheds Project, Center for ...
White House plan aims to protect science from politics
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Susan Sargent | January 12, 2022
Kyla Bennett, a national director for the group Public Employees for Environmental Protection, has been critical of EPA’s handling of longstanding problems in its chemical office (Greenwire, Dec. 23, 2021). She applauded the report’s mention of minimizing conflicts of interest and ...
National Park Service hires firm to study employee morale, then shelved report for 2 years
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Susan Sargent |
The Park Service hired a consultant to do a more in-depth study, but it shelved it until recently, when it was leaked to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “The core message of the report, that openness and transparency, were the best things that they could do moving ...
Health officials seek to broaden PFAS inquiry
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Susan Sargent |
Oak Bluffs health officials have concluded the scope of their investigation into per- and poly-fluoralkyl substances (PFAS) needs to broaden. On Tuesday, the town’s board of health held its second hearing on a proposed regulation to prohibit PFAS-containing artificial turf. Several ...