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“The White House on Friday held its first task force meeting to develop strategies for empowering career federal scientists, including through identifying incidents of interference in previous administrations. Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental ...

“EPA’s inspector general today issued another damning report showing the agency’s pursuit of polluters violating federal air, water and toxics laws has plummeted. “Enforcement decline was exacerbated by the Trump administration, but this is not solely a Trump issue ...

“EPA’s inspector general issued a stinging rebuke of the agency’s forensics center, highlighting challenges left for the Biden administration to address. Tim Whitehouse, a former EPA enforcement official, generally found the report “unsurprising,” saying the ...

“A lingering Trump appointee overseeing the struggling federal agency charged with investigating chemical disasters is spending excessive amounts of taxpayer money, according to documents obtained by a watchdog group. Katherine Lemos, chair of the Chemical Safety and Hazard ...

“An environmental whistleblower group claims Katherine Lemos, chair and sole current member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) rewrote the panel’s governing rules to “consolidate” her power at the expense of three pending nominees, and claims she has ...

“In drafting their long-disputed permit renewal for Suncor Energy’s refinery in Commerce City, state air pollution officials used the same 2010 internal guidance memo that they recently “retired” after whistleblowers called the memo illegal and protested it with the ...