Climate Team, and Its Boss, Just Got Harder to Find at Top Health Agency
From: The New York Times “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly folded its Climate and Health Program into a branch that studies asthma and expunged the word climate from the name of the newly consolidated office, the agency confirmed on Thursday. An agency ...
Trump Moves to Gut the Clean Water Act
From: The Nation “Now that the Trump administration’s performance at the COP 24 meeting in Poland has thoroughly trampled over climate-change protections, Trump is moving on from promoting air pollution to embark on a crusade to unleash pollution in the nation’s waters. With a ...
Selling Shipyard Safety
From: San Francisco Chronicle “Beyond the home area, the situation is even more fluid. The Navy has laid out its plan to retest the shipyard, but the EPA and other agencies have said the Navy is trying to cut corners. Regulators probably will be wrestling over the details into next year ...
EW: New EPA Rule Would Sabotage Clean Water Act
From: Eco Watch “In a move environmentalists are warning will seriously endanger drinking water and wildlife nationwide, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly gearing up to hand yet another gift to big polluters by drastically curtailing ...
CT: EPA Denies Petition to Stop Cyanide Use that Is Killing Wildlife
From: Citizen Truth “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has denied a petition seeking to ban M-44s — cyanide-spraying apparatuses used to kill coyotes, foxes, and wild dogs that may prey on livestock. Submitted to the EPA in August 2017 by the Center for Biological Diversity, ...
EPA’s New Water Rule Will Gut The Clean Water Act
From: The Intercept “As a result of the change, an estimated 60-90 percent of U.S. waterways could lose federal protections that currently shield them from pollution and development, according to Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental ...
‘Complete Wiping Away of Clean Water Act’: Trump EPA Rule Would Free Corporations to Pollute Nation’s Water as Much as They Please
From: Common Dreams “”As a result of the change, an estimated 60-90 percent of U.S. waterways could lose federal protections that currently shield them from pollution and development,” The Intercept’s Sharon Lerner reported on Friday, citing an analysis by Public ...
Malibu residents oppose plans to consolidate PCB removal with new construction
From: Santa Monica Daily Press “PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) released a press release Dec. 5 claiming SMMUSD’s proposed 5-year Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) clean up extension would put students and staff in classrooms that would expose them to illegal ...
Turning the Toxic Tide: Florida Needs New Approach to Environmental Regulation
From: TC Palm “IScott’s appointees brought with them a new approach to regulation, articulated in a 2011 memo by then-DEP Deputy Secretary for Regulatory Programs Jeff Littlejohn. When violations occur, he wrote, regulators’ first consideration “should be whether you can bring ...
The ‘Power Behind The Throne’ At The Interior Department Could Become Head If Zinke Resigns
From: KUER “If Zinke does resign — or he’s forced out — Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt would replace him. As second-in-command, Bernhardt runs daily operations while Zinke meets with politicians or travels to devastating wildfires. “He’s thought by many to be the ...
EPA Denies Petition to Stop Cyanide Use that is Killing Wildlife
From: Beyond Pesticides “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has denied a petition seeking to ban M-44s — cyanide-spraying apparatuses used to kill coyotes, foxes, and wild dogs that may prey on livestock. Submitted to the EPA in August 2017 by the Center for Biological Diversity ...
Quick Hits: Drunk Raccoons, New Park Service Director, and Shiver in the River
From: Blue Ridge Outdoors “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) worry about Vela’s commitment to preserving the wilderness, pointing to Vela’s decision as Southeast director to allow off-road vehicles in public lands adjacent to Florida’s Big Cypress National ...
Hunters Point Shipyard Residents Face No Radiation Risk, State Says
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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