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Commerce takes back job reclassifications for NOAA workers

by E&E News | April 7, 2025
Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is providing advice and legal counsel to an undisclosed number of NOAA employees, said he believes Friday’s email rescinding the Schedule F notifications “reflects a significant power ...

Trump Is Destroying Historic Environmental Regulation—And Marin Audubon’s Name Got (Arbitrarily) Caught Up In It

by Bay Nature | April 3, 2025
But out of nowhere, sandwiched in the ruling, came another set of opinions written by one of the three judges, Arthur Randolph. He declared that CEQ had never been given rulemaking authority. “What is quite remarkable is that this issue has remained largely undetected and undecided for ...

‘A battle of the scientific experts’: PFAS research at centre of Texas farms lawsuit contested

by Chemistry World | April 2, 2025
Based on those results, Ames and Kyla Bennett, an ecologist with the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) who served as a consultant for the investigation, suggested that the fertiliser was contaminated with PFAS that leached onto the neighbouring farms ...

National Park Service is evaluating where electric scooters and hoverboards should be allowed

by KUNC |
While giving individual park leaders some discretion makes sense to Frank Buono, he thinks more guardrails are needed to protect sensitive areas. “I would like to see a final rule really strengthened to protect the special places in the parks that could be harmed from inappropriate uses ...

Seattle federal worker sues over free speech rights amid DOGE crackdown

by Real Change News | March 27, 2025
Carolyn McConnell, a Seattle-based attorney for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), filed a lawsuit on March 12 against the federal government, alleging that it unfairly punished her for First Amendment-protected activity she conducted during her free time. The suit was filed ...

DOGE cuts allow Musk to cash in with SpaceX and Starlink contracts, ex-workers warn

by The Guardian | March 25, 2025
A new emergency Freedom of Information Act request for communications among Noaa offices and Doge in part seeks to shine some light on those questions. The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) request noted that privatization of the agency has long been a goal of the ...
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