NYC Educators Say Air In Schools Won’t Keep Them Safe From Coronavirus, File State Complaint
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Elizabeth Duan | October 8, 2020
“In a complaint filed this week, a group of New York City teachers and other school staffers charged that their workplaces are unsafe and that more rigorous testing of campus ventilation systems is necessary during the coronavirus pandemic. Representing the educators are the Public ...
‘It’s Orwellian’: Native loophole lets NASA shirk cleanup
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Elizabeth Duan | October 7, 2020
“After dramatically scaling back the cleanup plan for one of the country’s most contaminated areas, critics say, the Trump administration is now preparing to sidestep any remediation at all by declaring the entire near-3,000-acre former rocket and nuclear testing site near Los ...
BLM won’t stop illegal grazing
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Elizabeth Duan | October 6, 2020
“A veteran, decorated Bureau of Land Management range specialist is in hot water for her efforts to end illegal cattle grazing in Colorado’s San Luis Valley; the headwaters to the Rio Grande. Three weeks after she laid out the problems to BLM’s de facto Director, William Perry ...
Judges Tell Trump His Officials Are Serving Illegally. He Does Nothing.
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Elizabeth Duan | October 5, 2020
“Holding a job unlawfully is not a reason to be fired in the Trump administration. Last month, a Montana judge ruled that the acting head of the Bureau of Land Management, which holds sway over millions of acres of federal land, should be removed from his position because he was ...
The FAA Is Enabling Helicopters to Ruin the Outdoors
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Elizabeth Duan | October 3, 2020
“In August 2018, about 250 fed-up Hawaiians filed into a Department of Transportation meeting in Hilo to rail against a steady stream of helicopters passing over their homes—as many as 80 a day—en route to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. One commenter, standing at the microphone ...
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Is Getting New Visitor Center
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Elizabeth Duan | October 2, 2020
“After years of need, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana is getting a bigger and better visitor center, one with the space and proper environmental controls to display more of the monument’s archaeological collections. The 2008 plan called for an enclosed ...