INTERIOR SUED OVER PREMATURE DISCLOSURE OF RESERVE ESTIMATES
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Susan Sargent | April 17, 2018
From: The Cordova Times “A public interest group has sued the Interior Department over the premature release of highly sensitive estimates of new reserves at the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is seeking a permanent injunction ...
WORKERS’ GROUP ALLEGES LEGISLATORS AREN’T DOING ENOUGH ON SHIPYARD RADIATION CONTAMINATION
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Susan Sargent |
From: SF Gate “A public workers’ advocacy group at a rally in San Francisco today criticized Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, for allegedly failing to do enough about the cleanup of radiological contamination at the former Hunters Point ...
RYAN ZINKE’S GREAT AMERICAN FIRE SALE
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Susan Sargent | April 16, 2018
From: The New Yorker “In a speech to the National Petroleum Council last September, Zinke claimed that a third of the career civil servants under his command were “not loyal to the flag,” by which he meant Trump.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
AS SCIENTISTS MARCH, FEDERAL RESEARCHERS WEATHER TRUMP STORM
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Susan Sargent |
From: Wired “It’s more benign neglect,” Ruch says of Trump-administration leadership at various agencies. “Science isn’t being used to inform decision making. They don’t need it, they aren’t interested in it.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
AFTER BILLION-DOLLAR SUPERFUND CLEANUP, FOIA’D DOCUMENTS SHOW QUESTIONABLE DATA
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Susan Sargent | April 13, 2018
From: Muckrock “In what’s been dubbed the “biggest case of eco-fraud in U.S. history,” a contractor paid over $300 million to help clean a Cold War nuclear laboratory appears to have falsified soil samples and other data.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
S.F. SUPERVISOR CALLS FOR HEARING INTO HUNTERS POINT CLEANUP
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Susan Sargent |
From: KQED News “San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen is calling for a hearing into problems plaguing the cleanup of radioactive material from the Hunters Point Shipyard, after a federal report found contractors falsified soil sample data from the site to a much greater degree than ...
