“The nation’s main tsunami detection system experienced an outage March 9 when a broken water pipe in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Maryland headquarters knocked out the program’s servers, according to an agency spokeswoman. Ocean monitors positioned ...

“The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is running on fumes. With 80% of its board seats vacant and more than a dozen open investigations, CSB staffers are being asked to take on management responsibilities while the agency is run by Trump administration holdover Katherine Lemos, a self- ...

“What steps can the Biden administration take to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Bureau of Land Management to better address its conservation and climate change goals? This question was addressed in a lively online discussion hosted by PEER (Public Employees for ...

“State waste regulators say the lack of federal regulation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) is hindering their efforts to clean up the chemicals, and they are calling for EPA to designate the entire class of thousands of PFAS as “hazardous substances” under the ...

“Environmentalists say a new detection method for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that reveals a host of previously-unknown chemicals bolsters their call for EPA to regulate the class all at once under TSCA, warning that a piecemeal approach would stretch on for decades as ...

“The dawn breaks each morning on a hundred different mountain ranges in the Great Basin, with few human eyes to see it. Many of these mountain chains will be unfamiliar to most – the Toquimas, the Wah Wahs, the Goshutes, the Sheeprocks, the Fox Range – but the one thing they all ...

“A survey by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility says that employee morale in the Bureau of Land Management is low. But the agency is likely to change direction under the Biden administration. On paper, BLM policy embraces multiple uses for the millions of acres it ...

“The Bureau of Land Management was plagued by increasing extremism, retaliation and employee intimidation, and political influence during the Trump Administration, according to a Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility anonymous survey of current and former employees. The ...

On this week's episode, Bob talks with Tim Whitehouse and Kyla Bennett from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

“EPA PURSUING PESTICIDES’ PFAS PROBLEM: EPA on Friday said it has launched an investigation into the fluorinated containers that hold commonly used pesticides and other products after initial findings suggested that they are leaching PFOA and other PFAS into the products. The ...

“A Senate committee vote Thursday brought Deb Haaland one step closer to becoming the nation’s next Interior secretary. If she’s confirmed she’ll face myriad big decisions, including whether to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters from Colorado back to ...

“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating the presence of toxic chemicals in pesticides, which may be coming from their plastic containers, it said on Friday. The statement comes after testing conducted by the environmental group Public Employees for Environmental ...

“”Forever chemicals” are present in multiple common pesticides, according to new testing conducted by an environmental watchdog group and released exclusively to E&E News. The testing done by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) found per- and ...

“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. ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

“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… ...