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Bernhardt: We will reopen sites ‘as rapidly as possible’

by Elizabeth Duan | April 27, 2020
“At President Trump’s order, national parks across the country will reopen “as rapidly as possible,” Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said in a weekend tweet. The advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said the Park Service must take ...

Group blasts COVID-19 guidance as ‘downright unhelpful’

by Elizabeth Duan | April 23, 2020
“A government watchdog group is raising questions about EPA protocols for its inspectors after obtaining a copy of the agency’s health guidance for the COVID-19 pandemic. The group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), charged that the agency’s ...

Agency preps plans to return to work

by Elizabeth Duan | April 21, 2020
“Following White House guidance issued yesterday, EPA told employees in an email last night that senior agency leadership is working on a strategy to return staffers to the workplace. Kyla Bennett, a former EPA inspector now with the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental ...

BLM approves controversial Colo. management plan

by Elizabeth Duan | April 9, 2020
“The Bureau of Land Management has approved what it calls a “balanced” land use plan for southwest Colorado that critics say unnecessarily emphasizes energy development over conservation. The government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

Will FOIA be a pandemic casuality?

by Elizabeth Duan | March 20, 2020
“The Bureau of Land Management missed a key deadline in an ongoing lawsuit over Freedom of Information Act requests due to the agency’s response to the COVID-19 outbreaks. The disclosure, made in internal communications between the Justice Department and the plaintiff, Public ...
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