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Horse roundup kicking up controversy in Wyoming

by Buffalo Bulletin | July 8, 2024
The Bureau of Land Management on Monday set out on one of the largest Wyoming roundups in recent memory, aiming to corral and remove 2,715 wild horses and reduce the state’s biggest herds by as much as 90%. The combined herd area is home to 3,035 horses. Chandra Rosenthal, director of ...

TSP mobile app gets update, new features

A public-sector advocacy group is suing the Office of Personnel Management over a nearly seven-year delay in implementing a law passed by Congress. The Administrative Leave Act allows agencies to put federal employees on paid administrative leave for a maximum of 90 days while they ...

Outrage after Biden administration reinstates ‘barbaric’ Trump-era hunting rules

by The Guardian | July 7, 2024
The Biden administration has reinstated controversial Trump-era rules allowing what critics say are “barbaric” hunting practices that target bears and wolves, including pups or cubs, on federal land in Alaska. Sport hunters use the practices, like killing young in their dens, to ...

Lawsuit urges OPM to end 7-year delay to keep feds off indefinite paid administrative leave

by Federal News Network | July 3, 2024
A public-sector advocacy group is suing the Office of Personnel Management over a nearly seven-year delay in finalizing a rule, which plaintiffs say would keep agencies from putting federal employees on paid administrative leave indefinitely. Public Employees for Environmental ...

PEER sues to force OPM to implement administrative leave reforms

An environmental advocacy group is following through on the ultimatum it set last fall, suing the Office of Personnel Management in an effort to force the government’s HR agency to implement a 7-year-old law aimed at limiting agencies’ ability to put federal workers accused of ...

Overturning Chevron is a ‘game changer’ for the business of chemistry

In chemistry, a chain reaction is a rapid sequence of events in which the products of one reaction become the reactants of another. US courts of law can be similar. Take a New Jersey fishing company by the name of Loper Bright Enterprises, which in 2020 filed a lawsuit arguing that the ...
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