Arizona BLM Has Known About Lead Problems at Table Mesa for a Decade, OIG Says
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PEER | January 23, 2020
“Leaders at the Bureau of Land Management in Arizona knew for years that recreational shooting sites north of Phoenix contained high levels of lead, but they failed to warn the public and their own employees, according to a federal investigation. Nor has the agency cleaned up the ...
‘This Will Be the Biggest Loss of Clean Water Protection the Country Has Ever Seen’: Trump Finalizes Clean Water Rule Replacement
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PEER |
“Today, the Trump administration will finalize its replacement for the Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule in a move that will strip protections from more than half of the nation’s wetlands and allow landowners to dump pesticides into waterways, or build over ...
EPA Finalizes Clean Water Rollback Amid Science Challenges
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“The Trump administration on Thursday finalized a rule that significantly reduces the federal government’s role in regulating waterways, fulfilling a campaign promise to farmers and energy interests and handing a win to conservatives who have pushed for changes to the Clean Water ...
SpaceX’s License to Launch Hundreds of Internet Satellites May Have Violated the Law, Experts Say. Astronomers Could Sue the FCC.
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PEER | January 22, 2020
“A federal agency may have violated the law when it licensed SpaceX to launch thousands of satellites, according to a forthcoming paper. That raises the possibility that disgruntled astronomers could sue. ‘If there are lots and lots of bright moving objects in the sky, it ...
Career Employees Allege EPA Leaders Silenced Them on Key Deregulation Effort
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PEER | January 21, 2020
“The Environmental Protection Agency suppressed the work of its career employees and dismissed legitimate science in taking a key deregulatory action, dozens of former and current employees have alleged. The employees are asking investigators to discipline the top officials ...
Daily on Energy: Trump Tries out New Climate Line of Attack
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“TRUMP TRIES OUT NEW CLIMATE LINE OF ATTACK: President Trump on government-centric plans to combat climate change Tuesday: ‘Fear and doubt is not a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism and action,’ Trump said in his address ...
