The Sierra Club sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday after the agency refused to turn over any documents to back up Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s claim that climate change “is 50 to 75 years out.” The Sierra Club had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ...

“FRANKLIN — For two years, an abandoned pile of artificial turf had decomposed on a bluff here, a few feet above wetlands that are part of the suburb’s drinking water supply. Nearby, ripped bags with the infill of the turf, tiny pellets of shredded tires, littered the embankment ...

PFAS CHEMICALS HAVE been identified in synthetic turf, according to lab tests performed on several samples of the artificial grass that were shared with The Intercept. The presence of the chemicals, members of a class that has been associated with multiple health problems, including ...

The changes underway at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management might not seem like much: A few hundred employees are being relocated from offices near the White House and dispersed throughout the West, while agency leaders move in next door to energy companies in newly leased headquarters in ...

Unsatisfied with how the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Park Service have responded to a lawsuit to force them to implement air tour management plans for airspace over national parks, two groups are heading back to court to force the agencies to accomplish that goal. ...

Craig Hover a 21 year veteran with the Bureau of Land Management in Ely was dismissed earlier this year in April, and has since challenged his dismissal, with the help of  Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).  Charges that this discharge was illegal retaliation in ...

Federal fisheries regulators are taking heat from both sides of the debate over protections for the endangered North Atlantic right whale. The latest salvo comes from a conservation group representing public employees, which says the National Marine Fisheries Service ignored its own ...

The Trump administration says the controversial acting head of the Bureau of Land Management is keeping his job through the end of the year, despite legal questions surrounding his appointment. Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: So why would President Trump leave a federal agency without a ...

The federal agency responsible for protecting North Atlantic right whales misrepresented the views of its own scientists to justify its decision to open long-closed fishing grounds off Nantucket last year, putting the critically endangered species at greater risk, according to an ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The anonymous whistleblower whose complaint sparked an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump could be a prized witness for the House Intelligence Committee, but must navigate a complicated legal framework to do so without facing retaliation. California ...

In the swirl of the news cycle about revelations coming from an intelligence whistleblower and misguided but predictable attacks on them, we want to set some facts straight. The whistleblower’s complaint documented his urgent concern that President Trump pressured the president of ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — As whistleblower laws become a topic of discussion across the country, KELOLAND News looked at the laws in South Dakota. According to a report from Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility, the state has 23 out of 100 points in a 2018 report card. Read ...

The National Park Service on Thursday announced it would allow electric bikes in Glacier National Park and other national parks on roads and trails where traditional bikes are allowed. This means Glacier visitors will be able to use e-bikes when traveling Going-to-the-Sun Road and other ...

Washington, DC, Sept. 19, 2019 — The absence of any federal standards for tracking and managing wastes contaminated with per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) poses a major and growing threat to our health, water, and soil, according to a rule-making petition filed today by Public ...

“The company that developed Massachusetts’ first auto emissions inspection program — technology that proved to be inaccurate for the first five years of its use — has won back the contract to install its equipment in garages across the state. Applus Technologies Inc. was ...

For generations, our country has been Mother Nature’s steward, setting aside and protecting important expanses of public lands for posterity. But what if these lands and natural resources suddenly got a “steward” who was a predator, rather than a protector? Meet William Perry Pendley ...

WASHINGTON – The Trump Administration violated federal law when it diverted funds for national park improvements toward keeping places like Grand Canyon National Park open during the last government shutdown, the Government Accountability Office has now reported. The 17-page legal ...

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration said that oil drilling in part of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would have a negligible environmental impact, clearing the way for lease sales to oil companies this year. The finding by the U.S. Department of Interior was backed by Alaskan ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is expanding hunting and fishing in 77 national wildlife refuges, including one in Colorado, in a move that critics contend is deferring management to states and could harm wildlife. The Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and ...

Managers of the National Bison Range will keep wildlife as a priority, but visitors will get a few more amenities under a final management plan. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reiterated its intent to focus on wildlife for at least the next 15 years in its final draft of the National ...