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Scientists fear for the world’s most endangered sea turtle as the Park Service cuts back

by Elizabeth Duan | July 16, 2020
“Every summer, thousands of people travel to Padre Island National Seashore at dawn to cheer on sea turtle hatchlings as they are released into the surf. But after more than 40 years of supporting and celebrating the program, National Park Service officials appear to have soured on ...

Second round of PFAS tests finds lower levels in St. Mary’s River

by Elizabeth Duan | July 15, 2020
“New testing has detected “forever chemicals” in the St. Mary’s River in Southern Maryland, though at levels much lower than those reported there earlier this year by an environmental activist. “Because these PFAS compounds can bioaccumulate, having PFAS at 5 or 9 parts per ...

Trump’s Bureau chief wants to give authority over federal lands to local law enforcement officials

by Elizabeth Duan | July 14, 2020
“Donald Trump’s acting head of the Bureau of Land Management, says local authorities should have primary law-enforcement authority on federal land. Tim Whitehouse, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), said Pendley’s pronouncement no ...

Ackerman on Trump’s Nomination for BLM Director: “Unacceptable”

“Patricia Ackerman, Democratic candidate for Nevada Congressional District 2, last Friday stated her vehement opposition to news that President Donald Trump plans to nominate William Perry Pendley to be the Bureau of Land Management Director. Last week, President Trump announced his ...

Environmentalists Rally Against William Pendley’s BLM Nomination

by Elizabeth Duan | July 13, 2020
“William Perry Pendley, who once wrote that the “Founding Fathers intended all lands owned by the federal government to be sold,” last month was officially nominated by President Donald Trump to become the director of the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, ...

Oil and gas leases threaten the Old Spanish Historic Trail

by Elizabeth Duan | July 10, 2020
“The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is in the midst of a massive oil and gas lease sale in Utah. The September sale of 114,000 acres of wild lands in Utah will touch national parks, monuments, proposed wilderness and some of the prettiest red rock vistas in Utah.” ...
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