News Clips

From: Chesterton Tribune “Both Dunes Action and the National Park Service (NPS) have recently sent letters to the DNR. NPS asked that the DNR direct Pavilion Partners LLC to either revert to the original plans for restoration, submit new plans for review, or consider converting the ...

From: Federal News Radio “In February, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility urged Interior’s Office of the Inspector General to look into what it considered “blatant violations” of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. More specifically, PEER took issue with the agency’s ...

From: San Francisco Chronicle “The U.S. Navy’s latest promise to clean up radioactive soil and buildings at its former San Francisco shipyard relies on an earlier Navy effort to remove less radioactivity in order to cut costs, The Chronicle has learned. The perplexing move has ...

From: Union of Concerned Scientists “n addition to reductions in staff focused on pollution prevention, it also means reductions in staff for those who work on environmental cleanup, such as at Superfund sites. There is also a critically low number of criminal investigators working for ...

From: Greenwire “Individual states will wield more clout over fish and wildlife on about 780,000 square miles of Interior Department land nationwide under a new policy outlined by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. In a move that’s welcomed by Western conservatives but worries ...

From: Greenwire “The Government Accountability Office appears to have punted on determining the legality of certain actions taken by temporary Interior Department appointees. So federal judges will now get the ball, with some high-stakes decisions potentially on the line. “The ...