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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 ...

The Strange Case of Daniel Horowitz and His Three Years of Paid Leave

by | November 13, 2018
From: Centre Law & Consulting “For exactly three years Daniel Horowitz was paid his full GS-15 salary of $161,000 to do – well – exactly nothing. That delicious gravy train finally ended. We can now say that Dr. Horowitz was employed (past tense) by the Chemical Safety Board (CSB ...

Fed Board Run By Obama Holdovers Is ‘Hemorrhaging’ Taxpayer Money on Legal Fees

by | November 13, 2018
From: The Daily Caller “A federal board tasked with investigating chemical accidents is “hemorrhaging” taxpayer money on a years-long personnel case that has not yet gone to trial, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). PEER attorneys are representing ...

Exclusive: ‘This Place is So Toxic’: Chemical Safety Board Employees Berate Management Over Secrecy

by | November 13, 2018
From: The Daily Caller “The CSB’s satisfaction score plummeted in the 2018 survey results, showing one of the largest decreases for a single agency across the federal government, according to FEVS results reviewed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. After the 2017 ...

Is David Vela the Right Choice for the National Park Service?

by | November 13, 2018
From: Sierra “Not everyone is excited about the prospect of Vela heading the agency. Some environmental watchdogs are concerned about Vela’s track record on wilderness management, transparency, and park planning. And Vela is facing tough questions from the American Civil Liberties ...

The House Science Committee May Soon Become…Pro-Science

by | November 9, 2018
From: Wired “Capitol Hill observers and advocacy groups, however, say it’s not clear that a more science-friendly House will result in any new legislation getting passed or in stopping Cabinet heads that report to President Trump. “The attempt to embarrass the Trump White House ...

Petersburg Assembly Seeks More Info From Forest Service on Timber Sales

by | November 8, 2018
From: KFSK “Petersburg’s borough assembly Monday voted to send a letter to the chief of the U.S. Forest Service asking the federal agency to fix problems with oversight and administration of timber sales on the Tongass National Forest. Area residents who have been pushing the municipal ...

Head Of Grand Canyon Under Federal Investigation, Reasons Shrouded In Mystery

by | November 6, 2018
From: Wyoming Public Media “An agency spokesperson wouldn’t comment on why she is being investigated. But Lehnertz is being temporarily replaced by Woody Smeck, current superintendent of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, on November 11th. “That suggests that the investigation ...

Morale Slumps at Embattled Agency

by | November 6, 2018
From: E&E News “Job satisfaction at the Chemical Safety Board has declined again after a brief turnaround under the leadership of former Chairwoman Vanessa Allen Sutherland, leading government watchdogs to question the management of the long-troubled agency. Sixty-one of 72 questions ...
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