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Employees speak out on Trump’s detrimental reorganization of BLM

by Missoula Current | March 5, 2021
“Bureau of Land Management employees say that after four years of abuse, the agency needs to be rebuilt before it can carry out its mission of sustainable multiple-use. In the meantime, the resource management plans for the Missoula and Lewistown BLM offices also need major changes. ...

Confirm Haaland and let work on BLM begin

by Daily Sentinel | March 2, 2021
“Last week the Sentinel’s Dennis Webb covered the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s grilling of Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next secretary of the Interior. Our interest in the confirmation hearing was weighted heavily by the ...

Undoing Trump’s threat to endangered North American right whales

by DC Report | March 1, 2021
“Trump’s National Marine Fisheries Service was regulating right whales toward extinction as the whales literally starved to death while entangled in fishing gear. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “has powerful tools to protect the North American ...

Inside Biden’s uphill battle to restore the EPA after Trump

by Grist | March 1, 2021
“Laws are only as good as their enforcement. During his four years in office, former President Donald Trump’s appointees to the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, decimated the agency’s ability to catch and penalize polluters breaking environmental rules. As a result of ...

Drake is Closing – Now What?

by Peak Environment Podcast | March 1, 2021
“What can you do to create a sustainable, just, and carbon-free city? Hear what’s next in the closure of the fossil-fuel powered Martin Drake Power Plant in Colorado Springs, and learn about three local campaigns on which you can take action. This is audio from a live webinar held ...

Former Wyoming BLM director: ‘Restore better’ national office in D.C.

by Grand Junction Sentinel | February 26, 2021
“A former Bureau of Land Management state director for Wyoming on Thursday called on the Biden administration to “restore a better national (BLM) office to the Washington, D.C., area” following the move of the agency’s headquarters to Grand Junction last year. “The move of ...

Advocates Say EPA Ignored Popular Fumigant’s Cancer Risks

by Law360 | February 25, 2021
“An advocacy group on Thursday asked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s watchdog to examine why the agency proposed to downgrade the human health risks associated with a commonly used fumigant,… ” Read the PEER Story… ...

BLM morale tanked under Trump, survey finds

by E&E News | February 25, 2021
“A former senior Bureau of Land Management official and the results of a recent anonymous survey of current and recently retired BLM employees reveal that the bureau’s relocation plan completed last year left staffers demoralized and uncertain about its future. The recently ...

State regulator’s negotiations with Boeing about Santa Susana cleanup sparks criticism

by Los Angeles Daily News | February 25, 2021
“A state department agency that oversees the cleanup of toxic Santa Susana Field lab met confidentially with Boeing Company, one of the polluters, to mediate the cleanup of the area in the hills above the San Fernando and Simi valleys, drawing criticism from a Ventura County ...

Environmental Group Charges EPA With Ignoring Evidence of Cancer

by The Intercept | February 25, 2021
“An assessment of a pesticide that the Environmental Protection Agency issued last year is fraudulent, according to a complaint the environmental group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility submitted to the EPA’s Office of Inspector General today. The complaint accuses ...

More than 300 Florida manatees dead in first six weeks of 2021

by Oceanographic Magazine | February 24, 2021
“According to recent state statistics posted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the first six weeks of 2021 have seen extremely high mortality rates of Florida’s manatees. Between January 1 and February 12, 2021, 317 manatees have died, according to  ...

EPA’s assessments of chemicals draws criticism from its own scientists

by U.S. Right to Know | February 24, 2021
“Many U.S. scientists working for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) say they don’t trust the agency’s senior leaders to be honest and they fear retaliation if they were to report a violation of the law, according to a survey of employees conducted in 2020. The negative ...

Non-profit says Florida may be in a “manatee extinction crisis”

by Fox 4 News | February 24, 2021
“An environmental non-profit says Florida may be facing a manatee extinction crisis. The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, has been tracking more than 300 manatee deaths this year alone, and for the majority of them, the cause of death wasn’t even ...

Opinion: Get the Dirty Sources Out of State’s Renewable Energy Program

by Maryland Matters | February 20, 2021
“Since 2004, Maryland residents have invested millions of dollars in renewable energy sources as we strive to create new energy sector jobs and reduce our carbon emissions in the face of the climate crisis. A lot of Marylanders’ money is being wasted on these dirty energy ...

Senate slows Biden’s record-breaking staffing efforts

by E&E News | February 19, 2021
“On day one, President Biden broke modern records by filling more than a third of the roughly 3,000 political posts across the federal government that do not require Senate confirmation. But for the administration’s 1,250 political appointees that do require Senate approval, it ...

Government Agency Charged With Protecting Endangered Species Takes Payments From Developers

by EarthJustice | February 18, 2021
“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service exists to conserve nature. In Collier County, Florida, money from developers may be interfering with that mission. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is failing in its duty to protect endangered species. Fish and Wildlife Service officials — in ...

Specter of ICE Looms Over Investigation of Fatal Poultry Plant Disaster

by Project on Government Oversight | February 17, 2021
“A senior political appointee from the Trump administration still employed at a federal safety agency investigating a fatal chemical disaster at a Georgia poultry plant has been in communication with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a highly unusual move, the Project On ...

Firefighters face lies, ‘phony’ studies on PFAS exposure

by E&E News | February 17, 2021
“Firefighters attempting to uncover the truth about carcinogens in their protective clothing are confronted with the same playbook chemical companies have used for decades: twisting science to deny and downplay the dangers of their products. E&E News obtained copies of those ...

State, Boeing mediating cleanup dispute at former nuke site near Simi, worrying activists

by Ventura County Star | February 17, 2021
“The state and Boeing have quietly begun mediating the long-planned cleanup of the former Santa Susana Field Laboratory site near Simi Valley, a move activists and Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks fear will water down the cleanup. The mediation offer from the state did not come ...

National Academies slams Trump admin chemical reviews

by E&E News | February 16, 2021
“A withering new report from one of the country’s leading science authorities faults EPA’s approach to chemical risk evaluations under the Trump administration — a process the Biden EPA has already pledged to overhaul. Advocates also say the report’s findings are ...
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