Formaldehyde Controversy Raises Concerns For Retailers Over EPA’s Future Review And Regulation Of Chemicals And Associated Litigation Risk
From: Mondaq “Industry groups have met with EPA and have publicly expressed concerns that the updated risk assessment will be merely a “restructuring” of the original draft and will still suffer from the same scientific and methodological defects previously identified by the ...
Is Trump Using the Shutdown to Serve Energy and Hunting Special Interests?
From: TruthOut “Several moves by the Interior Department to bring back furloughed staff to attend to oil and gas activities aren’t sitting well with some elected officials. Arizona’s Rep. Raúl Grijalva, chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, wrote a letter to David ...
Is the Trump Administration ‘Gaming the Shutdown’ to Serve Energy and Hunting Special Interests?
From: The Revelator “Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit that advocates for public employees who work on environmental issues, says he’s also concerned by information they uncovered that other nonessential staff from six ...
Gaming the System
From: The Washington Post “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental advocacy group, is calling on the Government Accountability Office to probe whether the Interior Department’s move to recall furloughed staff to move forward with oil and gas leasing work ...
Government Shutdown Becomes a ‘Polluters Holiday’
From: Environment News Service “Federal biological, pollution, and food safety monitoring has been suspended as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed and forbidden from working due to the longest government shutdown in American history. These interruptions create risks ...
EPA should be making more criminal referrals for polluters
From: Kentucky Kernel “The story reported that EPA referrals resulted in 62 federal convictions in the year 2018, making it the fewest convictions since 1995. Under Bill Clinton’s presidency in 1998, 592 people were referred for criminal prosecution. The story quoted Jeff Ruch, ...
