Spending law presents challenges for environmental regulators
by Roll Call | January 6, 2023
A provision in the new funding law blocks any of the money it distributes from being used to “regulate the lead content of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle” under the Toxic Substances Control Act. The Union of Concerned Scientists, the American Bird Conservancy and ...
National Park Service still waiting for Biden to pick a director
by Roll Call | August 18, 2021
“There’s a real problem with not having a leader at the head of the agency. It’s killing morale. Killing morale,” Kristen Brengel, senior vice president for government affairs with the National Parks Conservation Association, said in an interview. Jeff Ruch of the Public Employees ...
A ‘forever chemical’ surprise awaits Biden’s EPA
by Roll Call | January 15, 2021
“President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to address so-called forever chemicals that have been found in Americans’ drinking water and linked to many adverse health effects. But the scope of the contamination may be larger than previously understood given the EPA finding this week ...
Biden’s EPA pick has experience lifting a discouraged agency
by Roll Call | December 18, 2020
“Michael Regan, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for EPA administrator, won kudos for his work to rejuvenate a beleaguered North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, where morale plummeted under a Republican leadership skeptical about climate science. “Michael ...
Without Senate-confirmed leaders, Interior rules may be at risk
by Roll Call | October 26, 2020
“Through a series of appointments that appear to have bypassed the Appointments Clause of the Constitution and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, the officials leading those agencies — the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and the Office of Surface Mining ...