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“Attorneys for the whistleblowing state air pollution division employees late Friday asked the Colorado Attorney General’s Office to broadly expand the scope of its previously announced investigation into the state health department’s handling of numerous industry permits. The ...

“The controversial SA Dunn landfill will have to apply for what would essentially be a new permit rather than for a renewal of their existing permit to accept construction and demolition debris. That would be a more extensive process, with more scrutiny than a renewal. Additionally, ...

“The former head of EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection has filed a whistleblower complaint with the agency asking to be restored to her former post. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is representing Etzel, said she is working as a ...

“A new report from the Palm Beach County Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed the City of Delray Beach failed to disclose to the Florida Department of Health that a resident possibly got sick from drinking water mixed with reclaimed water. A whistleblower report had been ...

“EPA’s top enforcement official has directed agents to ramp up inspections in communities that have long been afflicted by pollution and called on agents “to step in and take necessary action” in cases where state regulators are falling short on the job. Kyla ...

“It’s probably apocryphal, but German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer supposedly said, “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” Regardless of whether he said it back in the 19th ...