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One of the Bureau of Land Management’s most senior range specialists has announced that she is leaving the agency reportedly “in disgust” over its declining ability and willingness to protect the lands entrusted to it. Her exit memo was posted today by Public Employees for ...

Energy and Natural Resources Chair Joe Manchin once blocked Laura Daniel-Davis’ rise to a top Interior Department post, but now he could opt — without having to take any action at all — to let her retain the agency’s No. 2 post for the duration of the Biden administration. ...

A former Bureau of Land Management staffer who retired last week after 32 years with the agency issued a scathing exit memo warning that the 2014 armed standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has frightened bureau leadership away from stopping illegal grazing. The result is that untold ...

We are writing in regard to Jerry Meral’s recently published Marin Voice commentary (“Lack of income is pushing Point Reyes National Seashore into disrepair,” April 25). Meral writes that the Seashore is “deteriorating due to lack of funds.” The lack of funds, in part, comes from ...

In an unexpected turnaround, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced at the end of April a Proposed Interim Decision (PID) to discontinue all but one application of the insecticide acephate. Acephate is an organophosphate pesticide, a well-known neurotoxicant, widely ...

Two scientists who sought permission to speak with U.S. Right to Know were silenced last month by officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Jeff Ruch, Pacific director of the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said that the First Amendment rights of ...