BLM fires critical environmental analyst on second try
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Susan Sargent | December 9, 2021
A group supporting public employees is challenging the firing of an environmental analyst who said the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s approval of a Delaware-sized oilfield in Converse County failed to protect migratory birds as required. Public Employees for Environmental ...
Wild horse advocates cry foul on cusp of enormous roundup, removal
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Elizabeth Duan | October 5, 2021
“Federal contract wranglers plan to round up 4,300 wild horses in southwest Wyoming — permanently removing about 70% of them — starting Thursday in an undertaking that culminates years of conflicts among land and wildlife managers, ranchers and horse advocates. A group ...
Group says BLM whistleblower enduring ‘torture of the damned’
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Elizabeth Duan | June 29, 2021
“A group representing a federal environmental specialist blasted the Bureau of Land Management last week after the agency filed new termination papers against him. Public Employees for Environmental Ethics calls Walter Loewen a whistleblower who is being unfairly sacked after he ...
Feds unjustly firing Converse oilfield whistleblower, group contends
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Elizabeth Duan | March 17, 2021
“A watchdog group challenged the proposed firing of a federal environmental analyst Tuesday after he criticized plans to allow the Converse County Oil and Gas Project to degrade raptor nesting sites. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a national group that supports ...