A public-sector advocacy group is suing the Office of Personnel Management over a nearly seven-year delay in finalizing a rule, which plaintiffs say would keep agencies from putting federal employees on paid administrative leave indefinitely. Public Employees for Environmental ...

An environmental advocacy group is following through on the ultimatum it set last fall, suing the Office of Personnel Management in an effort to force the government’s HR agency to implement a 7-year-old law aimed at limiting agencies’ ability to put federal workers accused of ...

In chemistry, a chain reaction is a rapid sequence of events in which the products of one reaction become the reactants of another. US courts of law can be similar. Take a New Jersey fishing company by the name of Loper Bright Enterprises, which in 2020 filed a lawsuit arguing that the ...

Republican lawmakers in Congress are investigating the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) over numerous allegations of misconduct at Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) in Kansas. In a letter dated July 2, leaders on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the House ...

A new study has found “forever chemicals” can infiltrate the bloodstream through the skin, raising new questions about the potential health risks of PFAS-laden beauty products, makeup or other items. “This is something that’s affecting every single American,” said ...

A new contract for employees at the Environmental Protection Agency has some new assurances that allow scientists to discuss their work more freely. The new contract has a provision protecting scientific integrity. For more, Federal News Network’s Eric White spoke to Jeff Ruch of Public ...

Garden designer Peter Dowdall is on a mission to clean up Ireland and push people to get dirty – the right way. Peter, who has been giving gardening advice for 25 years, wants everyone to stop supporting the use of artificial grass in domestic gardens and on sports pitches – ...

One watchdog group is accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of presenting false information to the public about the testing of harmful “forever chemicals” in pesticides, the Guardian reported. The nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, ...

A lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency brought by a group of farmers over federally approved biosolids containing a group of chemicals known as PFAS could mark the start of a new wave of land contamination cases. The suit — launched earlier this month in District of ...

The city of Ithaca is considering whether to approve Cornell University’s plans to install new artificial turf fields, drawing concern from environmental groups who say the proposal poses numerous health and pollution concerns. At a webinar on the issue that Zero Waste Ithaca hosted in ...

Amidst growing concerns about political interference in environmental regulations and scientific research, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees have negotiated a new contract clause aimed at shielding them from political meddling. This proactive measure highlights the ...

On Thursday, June 13, conservation organizations submitted comments in opposition of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) draft amendment, which addresses impacts on Wyoming’s greater sage-grouse populations. The following conservation groups collaborated on the submitted ...

The 470-mile-long Greenlink West transmission line proposed to span the length of Nevada from Las Vegas to Reno will cross the boundaries of a national monument established by Congress a decade ago to protect Ice Age fossils. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, for example, ...

Inaction by the Biden administration on rules that would prevent bear baiting in national preserves in Alaska has reopened litigation over those rules. At issue are rules that would allow hunters on national preservers to use donuts and grease-soaked bread loaves to lure in bears, to kill ...

Recent technology breakthroughs have unlocked the potential production of many billions of barrels of Alaska’s high viscosity heavy oil, a development not yet accounted for in U.S. climate strategy. Federal intervention is needed now to keep this heavy oil carbon bomb in the ground. ...

The nonprofit organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is demanding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) retract a memo it released last year that reported the agency found no evidence of PFAS in its tests of commonly used pesticides. EPA initiated ...

A coalition of environmental groups petitioned the Interior Department on Wednesday to phase out the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, starting with a climate analysis of the pipeline to assess its contribution to global warming. “A coherent national climate plan must consider the Trans- ...

When the union representing nearly half of Environmental Protection Agency employees approved a new contract with the federal government this month, it included an unusual provision that had nothing to do with pay, benefits or workplace flexibility: protections from political meddling into ...

A coalition of environmental groups has filed a legal petition with the federal government to reconsider how the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System contributes to climate change and to begin phasing the 800-mile line out of existence. “The federal government has a lot of both responsibility ...

While the wild horse population on Bureau of Land Management has more than tripled since 1971, despite annual removals of as many as 20,000 horses, there are now only half as many cattle and sheep on the range as there were when the Wild Free Roaming Horse & Burro Act of 1971 was ...