PEER: BLM should account for grazing’s climate impacts
by E&E News | July 25, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management’s oversight of livestock grazing is contributing to the negative effects of a warming climate on federal landscapes, a government watchdog group says in a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. The letter, dated Friday and sent to Haaland by Public ...
Trump admin tried to blunt EPA review of popular weedkiller
by E&E News | July 21, 2022
The PFBS assessment was a day one priority for the Biden administration, with EPA officials working to withdraw and replace the evaluation almost immediately after the president’s inauguration. Other efforts have been more slow-going but still very much underway, including work to ...
EPA audit bashes Colo.’s industrial air permit management
by E&E News | July 15, 2022
The newly released EPA report notes that Colorado officials are already working to implement recommendations to improve their handling of what is formally known as the Minor New Source Review permitting program. Among other steps, the agency has implemented “stringent interim ...
Legal challenges loom for reinstated EJ tool
by E&E News | July 7, 2022
When he was at the agency years ago, former EPA attorney Tim Whitehouse recalled reviewing proposals that were not well documented or did not provide a clear nexus. “It gets tricky,” said Whitehouse, currently the executive director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...
PFAS subgroups could be subject to Superfund law
by E&E News | June 22, 2022
The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has been one of many organizations repeatedly calling for class-based regulation that would see all PFAS facing restrictions. “The more we learn, the more toxic we understand these chemicals to be,” said Kyla Bennett, ...