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Firm with Spotty Past Regains State’s Car Inspection Contract

by Susan Sargent | September 18, 2019
“The company that developed Massachusetts’ first auto emissions inspection program — technology that proved to be inaccurate for the first five years of its use — has won back the contract to install its equipment in garages across the state. Applus Technologies Inc. was ...

Trump puts opponent of public lands in charge of public lands

by Susan Sargent | September 12, 2019
For generations, our country has been Mother Nature’s steward, setting aside and protecting important expanses of public lands for posterity. But what if these lands and natural resources suddenly got a “steward” who was a predator, rather than a protector? Meet William Perry Pendley ...

Report: Using funds to keep parks open in government shutdown violated law

WASHINGTON – The Trump Administration violated federal law when it diverted funds for national park improvements toward keeping places like Grand Canyon National Park open during the last government shutdown, the Government Accountability Office has now reported. The 17-page legal ...

Trump Plans for Oil Drilling in Arctic Refuge Clear Big Hurdle

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration said that oil drilling in part of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would have a negligible environmental impact, clearing the way for lease sales to oil companies this year. The finding by the U.S. Department of Interior was backed by Alaskan ...

A Colorado wildlife refuge will allow hunting and fishing for the first time

BOISE, Idaho — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is expanding hunting and fishing in 77 national wildlife refuges, including one in Colorado, in a move that critics contend is deferring management to states and could harm wildlife. The Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and ...

Wildlife, not visitors, take precedence at National Bison Range

by Susan Sargent | September 11, 2019
Managers of the National Bison Range will keep wildlife as a priority, but visitors will get a few more amenities under a final management plan. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reiterated its intent to focus on wildlife for at least the next 15 years in its final draft of the National ...
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