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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From: E&E News “In the past, EPA has used a “screening threshold” of 1 percent of the standard, which in this case equates to 0.7 ppb, Peter Tsirigotis, head of EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, wrote in the memo. But in examining other options, ...

From: The Daily Caller “Obama administration appointees are “working toward a union takeover” of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), two sources familiar with the matter told The Daily Caller News Foundation. CSB board members are expected to vote an Obama administration appointee ...