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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

CSB, which operates independently of EPA and oversees national responses to chemical disasters, struggled significantly under the Trump administration, which repeatedly sought to dissolve the board and halt its funding. Lemos became the board’s only member for a time as staffing ...

Stone-Manning’s speech to the ranching trade group today comes as environmental advocates this month ramped up calls for BLM to better manage livestock and sheep grazing to protect stressed federal lands. The government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ( ...