“On March 30, three employees of the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Inspector General Sean O’Donnell. The group alleges that CDPHE urged them to ignore violations of air ...

“Environmental groups want Gov. Jared Polis to remove Garry Kaufman, Colorado’s top air pollution regulator, after whistleblowers alleged the long-time bureaucrat ordered modelers not to analyze potential pollution violations and created a culture of approving permits “at all ...

“Wallace Stegner called the national parks our “best idea,” but one wonders these days about the greatness of the National Park Service, which, since the moment of its inception, has done nothing but encourage the human tide. The 1916 National Park Service Organic Act, which ...

“A federal judge ruled yesterday that e-bike opponents can move forward with their legal challenge of a National Park Service policy that allows use of electric bicycles. Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said that NPS made a “ ...

“A group of whistleblowers have accused the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment of disregarding clean air standards for the sake of approving permits of industrial polluters. “I’ve never had the entire professional staff of a department come to us and say with ...

“A whistleblower complaint sent yesterday to EPA’s inspector general alleges that Colorado air officials ordered employees to no longer measure surges of fine particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. Maryland-based Public Employees for Environmental ...

“Three whistleblowers within the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) alleged this week that supervisors ordered staff to knowingly break the law by stopping some air pollution modeling and falsifying data. “The standards that are set in place for the ...

“Colorado officials responsible for controlling air pollution this month ordered employees to stop measuring surges of harmful sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and particulates, according to a whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday alleging a culture of approving permits for ...

“State air pollution control managers endangered the health of Coloradans by unlawfully approving noxious gas permits for industry without federally-mandated modeling or monitoring, according to a whistleblowing complaint filed Tuesday by technical employees inside the agency. The ...

“The haze you see isn’t just from the prescribed burn at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal. There’s another source of polluting stuff in the air, and it’s drifting your way because of lax enforcement from the state’s Air Quality Control Department (AQCD), a division of the Colorado ...

“I am extremely alarmed that toxic PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) chemicals have been found in a pesticide the state of Maryland uses in its mosquito control program (”Researchers find harmful ‘forever chemicals’ in pesticide used against mosquitoes in Maryland ...

“A pesticide widely used for mosquito control in Maryland and other states contains so-called forever chemicals — including a notorious compound phased out of U.S. production years ago due to health concerns — according to recent test results. Testing ordered by Public Employees ...

“The EPA confirmed Thursday that it’s investigating new data showing a mosquito-killer made by Bayer CropScience LP had high concentrations of two well-known “forever chemicals” that have been linked to health problems. The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ( ...

“Lab tests ordered by environmental groups found harmful chemicals, called PFAS, in a pesticide that Maryland uses for its mosquito control program, the groups said Thursday. “The results for us are extremely disturbing, given the health impacts linked to these forever chemicals ...

“A U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) environmental analyst is “facing termination” for blowing the whistle on environmental concerns related to a “massive Wyoming oil and gas project,” according to a March 16 press release from nonprofit group Public Employees for ...

“U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has introduced legislation that would carry out via law what she previously has endorsed as a matter of policy — keeping the Bureau of Land Management’s national headquarters in Grand Junction. Chandra Rosenthal, Rocky Mountain director of Public ...

“California is near the top in the country in state enforcement actions and fines levied against polluting industries since 2000, according to a new report that highlights the fragmented U.S. environmental compliance system. Tim Whitehouse, a former senior attorney with the EPA, is ...

“U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has introduced legislation that would carry out via law what she previously has endorsed as a matter of policy — keeping the Bureau of Land Management’s national headquarters in Grand Junction. Chandra Rosenthal, Rocky Mountain director of Public ...

“March temperatures are perfect for mountain biking, rock climbing, and river rafting trips, so increasingly the state is a spring break destination for college kids and families. The record-breaking number of visitors to Utah in 2020 indicates that despite COVID-19, there will also ...

“There are countless ways EPA can execute President Biden’s campaign promise to “hold polluters accountable” and pursue environmental offenders “to the fullest extent permitted by law.” But one decision EPA enforcement agents will have to make will be ...