Investigating cell service, tower permits in Utah’s national parks
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Elizabeth Duan | April 27, 2021
“Cellular service inside National Parks in the United States used to be a foreign concept. But more and more our national parks are adding cellular towers. In fact, a recent inventory from the park service shows 109 towers in 33 parks. However, the Public Employees for Environmental ...
NOAA Keeps Deploying Fishery Observers But With Limits Amid Pandemic
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Elizabeth Duan |
“Considered essential workers, federal fishery observers have continued monitoring Pacific commercial operations during the pandemic, but COVID-19 restrictions have forced them to reduce — or even cease — operations in some areas. In 2016, the Association for Professional ...
Colorado launching independent investigation into claims state pollution officials unlawfully issued permits, falsified data
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Elizabeth Duan |
“Colorado’s attorney general is launching an independent investigation of whistleblower allegations within the state’s health department that officials responsible for controlling air pollution ordered employees to stop measuring surges of harmful sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide ...
Colorado to hire independent investigator to probe air pollution allegations made in complaint
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Elizabeth Duan |
“Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is seeking to hire an independent investigator to look into whether employees at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment illegally issued air quality permits and falsified modeling data following a whistleblower complaint. “ ...
Colorado attorney general launches probe of whistleblowers’ air-pollution control complaints
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Elizabeth Duan | April 26, 2021
“The Colorado Attorney General’s Office is hiring an independent investigator to probe whistleblower allegations that the state health department’s Air Pollution Control Division failed to properly enforce EPA air quality standards. Chandra Rosenthal, an attorney for one of the ...
The Fight to Clean Up the EPA
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Elizabeth Duan |
“The Environmental Protection Agency recently acknowledged what was plain to most outside observers throughout the Trump era. “Over the past few years, I am aware that political interference sometimes compromised the integrity of our science,” Michal Freedhoff, acting assistant ...