BLM’s revised Nevada power line route avoids mine, not monument
by E&E News | May 15, 2024
Advocacy groups are raising concerns over a proposal by the Bureau of Land Management to alter a power line route in Nevada to avoid interfering with a potential mining site, but not move the line to avoid a national monument in its path. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...
EPA ditches ‘forever chemicals’ suit
by E&E News | May 14, 2024
EPA dropped a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against a plastics company unintentionally making “forever chemicals,” seemingly accepting defeat after a federal appellate court blocked the agency’s attempt to pause production altogether. The federal government filed a notice ...
Manchin’s choice: Who will be the No. 2 at Interior?
by E&E News | May 10, 2024
Energy and Natural Resources Chair Joe Manchin once blocked Laura Daniel-Davis’ rise to a top Interior Department post, but now he could opt — without having to take any action at all — to let her retain the agency’s No. 2 post for the duration of the Biden administration. ...
BLM ignores illegal grazing, fears ‘another Bundy situation,’ ex-staffer says
by E&E News | May 9, 2024
A former Bureau of Land Management staffer who retired last week after 32 years with the agency issued a scathing exit memo warning that the 2014 armed standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has frightened bureau leadership away from stopping illegal grazing. The result is that untold ...
EPA: PFAS response won’t imperil sludge spreading on farms
by E&E News | April 15, 2024
EPA isn’t looking to keep farmers from spreading sludge as fertilizer as regulators clamp down on “forever” chemicals that work their way into the material, the agency’s top agriculture official said Monday. Farmers in Texas are suing a biosolids management company ...