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“EPA promoted “National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week” on Twitter yesterday even though the agency hasn’t yet rolled out updated regulations to control lead and copper in drinking water. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has said the updated rule would be released ...

“President Trump last night signed an executive order making it easier for the federal government to fire and hire career staff. “The whole process is dubious and questionable,” said Tim Whitehouse, a former EPA attorney and current president of the group Public Employees ...

“EPA has finalized its “scientific integrity” rule, at a time when scientists inside the agency have questioned its commitment to scientific research. Kyla Bennett, a director with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, noted EPA’s latest scientific ...

“To hear him tell it, William Perry Pendley’s ousting by a federal judge last month from acting with the authority of the director of the Bureau of Land Management was no big deal. In Pendley’s interview with the Powell Tribune, he said the court cases against him ...

“The Trump administration continues to assert that a federal judge’s scathing order forbidding William Perry Pendley from leading the Bureau of Land Management has had no impact on Pendley or the bureau’s leadership. Interior has been on the offensive regarding Pendley ...