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Chemical-Safety Board Is Cutting Back Under Trump

by | October 11, 2018
From: Wall Street Journal “Industry groups say the work of the chemical safety board is essential. The American Chemistry Council said its members “find considerable value in the CSB’s work—especially the reports and materials generated by the board as part of its investigations ...

This Oil Lobbyist Is the Real Power Behind Trump’s Interior Department

by | October 9, 2018
From: Mother Jones “Late last year, associate deputy secretary Jim Cason, a Bernhardt lieutenant, reassigned at least 27 executives without much explanation or a paper trail, including several high-level staffers with portfolios in climate change and conservation. Clement, a climate ...

New Mexico Bears the Brunt of D.C.’s Environment Decisions

by | October 8, 2018
From: NM Political Report “The administration’s attack on public lands—from rolling back monuments which are sacred to pueblos and tribes in New Mexico, to leasing oil and gas near Chaco Canyon without public input or tribal consultation—will do irreparable damage to our most ...

Trump Administration Promises to Staff Up Police on Public Lands After Announcing Major Cuts

by | October 8, 2018
From: Government Executive “After the dual function employees are decommissioned, FWS will have 230 full-time officers. PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch called that insufficient, noting there are 562 refuges in the national system. “Refuge law enforcement is already critically ...

Falsified Soil Samples To Stalled Development: Hunters Point Shipyard Mired In Ongoing Controversy

by | October 8, 2018
From: BisNow San Francisco “San Francisco’s largest redevelopment in over 100 years is becoming one of its most controversial developments. Hunters Point, also known as San Francisco Shipyard, and the nearby Candlestick Point, the site of the former 49ers stadium, have been lauded as a ...

An Inside Look at How Trump Turned the EPA into an Industry Subsidiary

by | October 4, 2018
From: Yale Environment 360 “Elizabeth Southerland had a distinguished, 30-year career at the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during which she held numerous senior positions, including director of science and technology in the Office of Water. So she had a front-row seat early ...

White House Ends Law Enforcement Program at Wildlife Refuges

by | October 4, 2018
From: Courthouse News Service “Wildlife refuge managers, the people who police illegal hunting, fishing, trapping and pollution, among other stewardship duties, are being phased out, according to an internal memo obtained by a federal watchdog. Public Employees for Environmental ...

Wildlife Refuges Eliminate Part-Time Law Enforcement Officers

by | October 4, 2018
From: The Missoula Current “The American ideal of the friendly public-land ranger still persists, complete with Smoky Bear hat and horse companion. But by the end of this year, the reality will forever change on national wildlife refuges, leaving those lands with a little less protection ...

Trump Administration Abruptly Ends Key Law Enforcement Program at Wildlife Refuges

by | October 2, 2018
From: The Hill “The nation has 562 national wildlife refuges spread across 20.6 million acres of public land. Unlike national parks, mining, drilling, hunting and farming are all regulated activities on certain refuges. “Our dual-function officers were an integral aspect of refuge ...

Helicopter Noise Suit Goes to Appeals

by | October 2, 2018
From: West Hawaii Today “The lawsuit seeks an injunction for the FAA to implement the Air Tour Management Plan over Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, something both the FAA and the National Park Service has failed to do for 18 years despite Congressional legislature, said Bob Ernst, ...

Trump Admin Touts Children’s Health Programs Amid Questions About Ousting Top Scientist

by | October 2, 2018
From: ABCNews “”Children’s health is a top priority at EPA, and we have made tremendous progress improving air and water quality and helping kids and families lead healthier lives,” Wheeler said in a statement Monday. Advocacy groups, however, say they have doubts about the ...

EPA Makes Changes at Research, Child Health Offices

by | September 28, 2018
From: CNN “Michael Halpern with the Union of Concerned Scientists, which has opposed other Trump administration moves, said combining the offices would bury a once-influential position “deep inside one specific part of EPA.” In past administrations, the science advisor has ...

US Government Officials Visit, Learn About Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

by | September 28, 2018
From: Char-Koosta News “CSKT employees were escorted off the National Bison Range by armed officials and locked out pending an investigation of the claims. CSKT Vice Chairman Leonard Grey worked as a volunteer at the time and recalled his experience to Sweeney. “It was truly an insult ...

US Advocacy Group Sues EPA over Unreleased Formaldehdye IRIS Assessment

by | September 27, 2018
From: Chemical Watch “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a US alliance of state and federal professionals, is suing the US EPA for failing to respond to a public records request related to an assessment of formaldehyde. The claim relates to an unreleased revised ...

Federal Court Rules that CREW and PEER Records Lawsuit Against Pruitt and EPA May Proceed

by | September 26, 2018
Washington — This week, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg issued an order allowing a Federal Records Act (FRA) lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to proceed. CREW and PEER ...

Outdoor Activist Tim Mason Righted Many Wrongs

by | September 24, 2018
From: The Gazette “Only because Tim Mason was dogged did the biggest official mass desecrations of Indian prehistoric burial sites in U.S. history come to light,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of the group that presented Mason with its eco-hero medal. Mason made his environmental ...

Where Are Trump’s Watchdogs?

by | September 20, 2018
From: Greenwire “After eight years as EPA’s inspector general, Arthur Elkins is stepping down next month. Interior has had an acting IG in place for more than nine years, and President Trump hasn’t announced a nominee to fill the job. Trump has put forth a nominee for DOE&# ...

Editorial: Scott is a Disaster on Environment

by | September 20, 2018
From: Ocala Star Banner “From the moment the health-care multimillionaire swept into office on 2010′s Tea Party anti-tax, anti-regulation wave, he began slashing the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the five water management districts, cutting budgets, skilled staff and ...

Florida Editorial Roundup

by | September 20, 2018
From: Washington Times “What got slashed? The state’s network for water monitoring shrank from 350 monitoring sites to 115, according to Florida International University’s Southeast Environmental Research Center. Enforcement of anti-pollution regulations slowed to a crawl. The DEP ...

Labor Dept.’s OFCCP to Visit Hundreds of Contractors in the Coming Months

by | September 17, 2018
From: Federal News Radio “The Government Accountability Office may weigh in on how the Interior Department has been filling vacant political positions. In emails obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, GAO said it may look into “time violations” at Interior ...
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