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Radioactive waste landfill processing highly enriched uranium for decades

by Elizabeth Duan | February 6, 2024
Environmental groups in Tennessee will soon learn more about the approval process behind a radioactive waste landfill which has been processing and storing highly enriched uranium for six decades. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the Environmental Protection ...

Feds Slam Intervention Bids In BLM Grazing Analysis Dispute

by Elizabeth Duan | February 5, 2024
The Bureau of Land Management and green groups have asked a D.C. federal court to reject efforts by Idaho, Utah and a coalition of agriculture industry groups to intervene in the environmentalists’ lawsuit challenging the grazing allotments… Read the PEER Story… ...

Lawsuit probes EPA decision in allowing Oak Ridge landfill

Environmental groups in Tennessee will soon learn more about the approval process behind a radioactive waste landfill which has been processing and storing highly enriched uranium for six decades. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the Environmental Protection ...

EPA tackles ‘forever chemicals’ with hazardous waste law

by Elizabeth Duan | February 1, 2024
EPA released a rule that would list nine PFAS as “hazardous constituents” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, an action that could lead to cleanups of disposal and waste management facilities.   RCRA gives EPA the authority to regulate hazardous wastes the moment ...

EPA Proposes To List Nine PFAS As RCRA ‘Hazardous Constituents’

EPA is proposing a rule that would list nine PFAS as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) “hazardous constituents,” moving to more than double the number of the substances it previously pledged to add to the RCRA list that will give regulators the authority to require cleanup ...

Watchdog nonprofit says letters from top Bureau of Indian Education official appear to confirm existence of report on alleged crimes at Haskell

by Elizabeth Duan | January 30, 2024
The Journal-World has obtained the two letters, sent by Bureau of Indian Education Director Tony Dearman in January 2023. The BIE oversees Haskell under the U.S. Department of the Interior. In the letters, Dearman delegates authority to propose and execute disciplinary actions based on the ...
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