Court gives goverment two years to regulate air tours at national parks
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Elizabeth Duan | May 1, 2020
“A federal court has ruled that the National Park Service (NPS) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must regulate air tours at national parks within two years. The ruling comes after a lawsuit by the groups Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and Hawaii ...
Groups threaten suit as Interior repeatedly fills top posts with ‘temporary’ leaders
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Elizabeth Duan | April 28, 2020
“Two environmental watchdog groups are threatening to sue the Department of the Interior for continuously filling top posts with temporary orders — a move that skirts Senate confirmation. President Trump hasn’t nominated a permanent director for either the Bureau of Land ...
EPA is abandoning those suffering from toxic PFAS pollution
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Kyla Bennett | April 23, 2020
“This marks the latest in a decades-long string of failures by EPA to protect Americans from these dangerous chemicals. Even as the scientific case for regulation grows clearer and more urgent every year, the EPA under President Trump delays and obfuscates. While the number of sites ...
Advocates raise questions about proposal to allow some nuclear waste to be disposed in landfills
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Elizabeth Duan | April 3, 2020
“Scientists and advocates are raising concerns about a proposed relaxation on regulations for disposing of nuclear waste, saying that the government should halt the proposal as the scientific community focuses on the coronavirus. In a statement on Thursday, Public Employees for ...
Hazardous chemicals and government silence — a dangerous mix
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Susan Sargent | March 26, 2020
“Tort litigation has yielded multi-million-dollar verdicts for chemical exposure victims, prompted a documentary and a Hollywood feature film about the chemicals’ perils. Yet, the Environmental Protection Agency has failed to designate waste containing the chemicals as &# ...
