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Hunters Point Shipyard Residents Face No Radiation Risk, State Says

by | December 3, 2018
From: SF Weekly “State public health officials are once again seeking to assure residents of on a segment of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard embroiled in a fraudulent cleanup that the there are no radiation risks. Calls for retesting of Parcel A-1, where more than 300 homes sit, ...

Federal Employees Warned Not to Engage in Trump ‘Resistance’ Activities at Work

by | December 3, 2018
From: Breitbart News “Advocating for a candidate to be impeached, and thus potentially disqualified from holding federal office, is clearly directed at the failure of that candidate’s campaign for federal office,” the rule states. “Similarly, advocating against a candidate’s ...

Action Jackson Slows His Life Down to Raise Bison

by | December 3, 2018
From: Wayne Count Independent “A modern cowboy, but without the stereotypical bowed legs and lid of chaw in his back pocket, Bob “Action” Jackson has settled down on his little Yellowstone on the south fork of the Chariton River near Promise City, Iowa. Bison graze in the shade of a ...

Even Within the Herd, There Will Always Be Rebels That Do Not Fit

by | December 3, 2018
From: Wayne Count Independent “Yellowstone Park shows no curiosity about why and how Mountain Bison are different,’” Jackson said, noting the park fears the legal consequences of recognizing differences. ‘Yellowstone’s Mountain Bison of Pelican Valley need to be recognized for ...

Government Employees Told to Keep Quiet As Trump Comes Unglued

by | December 3, 2018
From: Vanity Fair “But while Trump can’t stop talking about his impending political crisis, Washington is warning federal employees to keep quiet. On Wednesday, the Office of Special Counsel, issued new guidance barring some 2 million federal employees from discussing the topic of ...

Advocacy Group Sues for Documents on Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Tweak

by | December 3, 2018
From: Government Executive “Guidance on the 2018 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey issued by then-OPM Director Jeff Pon in April that said some employees would participate in a pilot program of an “improved form of the FEVS” with “clarifications to definitions (e.g., leadership ...

Federal Employees Are Warned Not to Discuss Trump ‘Resistance’ at Work

by | November 30, 2018
From: New York Times ““People who use the term ‘resist’ could be expressing views about any number of matters, and the presumption that they are specifically advocating for the defeat of a candidate in 2020 strikes me as crazy and raises significant First Amendment concerns,” he ...

Sequoia Supe Woody Smeck to Serve as Interim Boss at Canyon

by | November 28, 2018
From: Grand Canyon News “In an interview with Wyoming Public Media, Jeff Ruch, executive director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the moves suggest the investigation into Lehnertz could take a long time. He also said her removal appeared to be a case of ...

Trump Administration Quietly Releases Intact 13-Agency Climate Change Report

by | November 27, 2018
From: Government Executive “Scientists inside the 13 agencies that prepared the major report on climate change released quietly on Friday are said to be relieved that the Trump administration did not alter their work, but puzzled by the timing of publication. That’s according to ...

Should We Be Worried About Loss Of Wilderness?

by | November 21, 2018
From: National Parks Traveler “The agency has failed to forward wilderness recommendations to the President, conduct legally-mandated wilderness assessments, prepare wilderness management plans, revise legally-insufficient wilderness assessments or take a myriad of other steps necessary ...

Trump’s Great American Forest Liquidation Sale

by | November 20, 2018
From: Cascadia Times “Starting in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the Trump administration is proposing to eliminate long-standing rules protecting 50 million acres of ancient forests across the country from logging and roadbuilding, raising new alarms about the president’s ...

Salon: Why the EPA Won’t Get the Lead Out of Our Water

by | November 19, 2018
From: Salon “After the Flint crisis, the EPA asked states in 2016 to collect information about where lead pipes were and publish that information online on local or state websites. Nine states, including Kansas and North Carolina, told the EPA they wouldn’t or didn’t intend to ...

This Silicon Valley Space Startup Could Lace the Atmosphere With Mercury

by | November 19, 2018
From: Bloomberg “Environmental scientists who’ve been working for years to curtail mercury pollution are frustrated by the potential emergence of a market for mercury propulsion, says Dan Jaffe, a professor of environmental chemistry at the University of Washington at Bothell. “Using ...

CSB’s Focus On Employee Dispute Harms Investigations, PEER Says

by | November 19, 2018
From: Inside OSHA “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is faulting the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board’s (CSB) spending on legal fees in a dispute with the board’s former managing director, saying that CSB’s continued focus on ...

CSB Faces Continued Uncertainty Despite Democrats’ House Control

by | November 19, 2018
From: Inside OSHA “Despite Democrats’ control of the House next year, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) faces continued uncertainty about its future as its supporters fear the Trump administration may deprive it of a quorum to operate by not nominating ...

Senators Call for New Safety Board Leader

by | November 16, 2018
From: E&E News “Prominent Senate Republicans have added themselves to the list of lawmakers calling for the White House to nominate a new Chemical Safety Board chair. The Trump administration has repeatedly proposed eliminating CSB, which investigates industrial chemical accidents, ...

Agency ‘Hemorrhaging’ Taxpayer Dollars — Watchdog

by | November 16, 2018
From: Greenwire “A government watchdog is criticizing the Chemical Safety Board for lacking transparency and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in a personnel case involving a former managing director of the agency. CSB will hold a closed-door meeting tomorrow on a “legal ...

Why The EPA Won’t Get The Lead Out Of Our Water

by | November 16, 2018
From: The National Memo “Public employees are pushing the EPA to rewrite its regulations which have helped enable crises like Flint, Mich., and now Newark, N.J. An estimated 15 million to 22 million people, or 5% to 7.5% of our nation’s population, drink water delivered through lead ...

Interior Credits Increased Fossil Fuel Production for Jump in Revenue from Federal Lands

by | November 15, 2018
From: The Hill “At least one Conservation group regarded the report and its numbers with heavy skepticism–nothing that fiscal 2017 extends into the Obama administration. The year begins October 2016. “This report contains no evidence that ‘smart regulatory reforms and ...

Ravenwoode: Saving America’s Wild Horses from Slaughter

by | November 13, 2018
From: Lake County News “Well-intentioned BLM whistleblowers have not stopped the slaughter. Even years of media investigative reporting, which has chronicled widespread abuses, have not stopped the slaughter. Countless nationwide horse protection and advocacy groups, who have mobilized ...
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