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Audit finds mismanaged Tongass timber contracts

by E&E News | February 1, 2021
“Pressure to meet timber sales goals contributed to mismanaged contracts on Alaska’s Tongass National Forest and a $700,000 refund to a timber sale purchaser, a Forest Service audit found. The environmental groups Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the ...

Audit reveals Tongass timber sales mismanaged

by KINY Radio | February 1, 2021
“That’s according to a release from the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council which says the audit was obtained via a lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a Freedom of Information request it filed. Sally Schlichting is a policy analyst for ...

Biden environmental challenge: Filling vacant scientist jobs

by Star Tribune | January 30, 2021
“The ranks of scientists who carry out environmental research, enforcement and other jobs fell in several agencies — sharply in some — under former President Donald Trump, federal data shows. Veteran staffers say many retired, quit or moved to other agencies amid pressure from an ...

Amid Broader Concerns Over Biden USDA Nominee, Watchdog Flags ‘Disturbing Suppression’ of Science by Vilsack

by Common Dreams | January 29, 2021
“On top of concerns about his close industry ties, corporate-friendly policy record, and alarming civil rights history, President Joe Biden’s Agriculture Secretary nominee Tom Vilsack is also facing scrutiny over what one watchdog organization on Friday characterized as “ ...

Cornyn, Booker Reintroduce Bipartisan Bill to Help Prevent Future Pandemics

by Texas GOP Vote | January 27, 2021
“U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and I along with Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Carper (D-DE) today reintroduced our Preventing Future Pandemics Act, a bipartisan bill that would direct the State Department to work with international partners to shut down commercial wildlife ...

Money and Politics Could Doom the Florida Panther — and the Endangered Species Act

by The Intercept | January 24, 2021
“Florida’s Collier County is a place of conflict and contradiction. Its southeastern flank features sprawling public landscapes like Big Cypress National Preserve, that wild redoubt of rare orchids and alligator wallows. Its western edge is home to some of the state’s most ...

Sanctions in Lawsuit Over PCBs in California Schools Vacated

by Bloomberg Law | January 22, 2021
“Sanctions imposed on organizations that tested caulk taken from California schools without permission for chemicals known as PCBs should be reconsidered, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday. There are “insufficient grounds” for finding that the testing was done in bad faith, even if ...

Bipartisan coalition reintroducing House legislation to prevent insider trading

by Augusta Free Press | January 22, 2021
“Seventh District Democrat Abigail Spanberger is reintroducing legislation to prevent insider trading by members of Congress. The bipartisan TRUST in Congress Act has been endorsed by many key advocacy and government accountability organizations, including the Project on Government ...

Legislators plan to introduce PFAS bills in both houses

by The Cordova Times | January 21, 2021
“Sen. Jesse Kiehl and Rep. Sara Hannan, both D-Juneau, say they plan to introduce bills during the current legislative session to protect Alaskans from adverse health impacts of unregulated toxin substances. On Friday, Jan. 15, the EPA acknowledged that the agency has found toxic ...

President Biden’s flurry of actions to protect the environment reignites a controversy about the Atlantic’s only marine monument

by Boston Globe | January 21, 2021
“Last June, as part of a concerted campaign to dismantle the environmental policies of the Obama administration, Donald Trump met with fishermen in Maine and signed a proclamation that allowed commercial fishing in nearly 5,000 square miles of federally protected waters southeast of ...

EPA Confirms Widespread PFAS Contamination of Pesticides, Announces “Investigation,” Stops Short of Action to Protect Public

by Beyond Pesticides | January 20, 2021
“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has confirmed that PFAS (per and polyfluorinated alykyl substances) ‘forever chemicals’ are contaminating containers that store pesticide products, and subsequently the products themselves. The confirmation comes after preliminary testing ...

EPA Announces Plan to Regulate ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Drinking Water

by Modern Farmer | January 20, 2021
“Just before leaving office, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency announced some changes regarding the regulation of a group of chemicals known as PFAS, or sometimes branded as “forever chemicals.” Most recently, just a day before the end of Trump’s only ...

Beyond Rescue: Do We Really Need Cell Phone Coverage In The Wild Backcountry?

by Mountain Journal | January 20, 2021
“Technology obviously can be a strength for bringing the world to one’s fingertips. But for a large segment of our population, natural areas are only infrequently, or not at all, part of their lives. Is being wired in necessary to having a better experience inside a national park? ...

Viewpoint: EPA Needs to Return to Its Public Health Roots

by Government Executive | January 20, 2021
Reprinted with permission from Government Executive “The Environmental Protection Agency celebrated its 50th birthday last month. While most people at 50 are at their prime, this is not the case for EPA, now greatly weakened after four years in the bulls-eye of the Trump ...

The ‘deep state’ of loyalists Trump is leaving behind for Biden

by Politico | January 19, 2021
“Donald Trump spent four years railing against a “deep state” of career federal workers he claimed was undermining his administration from the inside. When Joe Biden takes office this week, he may actually have one. And just last week, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard ...

Mosquito spray tainted with PFAS from shipping containers

by Chemical & Engineering News | January 19, 2021
“Environmentally persistent chemicals discovered in an insecticide aerially sprayed in more than half of US states leached into the pesticide from plastic shipping containers, the Environmental Protection Agency says. An assortment of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) ...

PFAS News Roundup

by Great Lakes Now | January 19, 2021
“Environmentally persistent chemicals discovered in an insecticide aerially sprayed in more than half of US states leached into the pesticide from plastic shipping containers, the Environmental Protection Agency says. “Shipping containers may be a significant source of PFAS ...

DEC: Pesticide isn’t the danger. Chemical in its container is

by The Telegraph | January 18, 2021
“The state Department of Environmental Conservation is blocking the use of a popular pesticide for mosquito control upstate and in New York City following the revelation that the chemicals’ containers were made with hazardous PFAS compounds. Late last year, the Maryland-based ...

Park Police Officers Worried That Chronic Understaffing Could Endanger The Public. Then The Capitol Riot Happened.

by Buzzfeed News | January 17, 2021
“A few hours before hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, a group of about 150 people breached a barrier around the base of the Washington Monument. Vastly outnumbered by the agitated throng, a clutch of US Park Police officers on ...

Transition Roundup

by Government Executive | January 15, 2021
“This week, Trump appointee Katherine Lemos, chair of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board and the only member of the five-member board, brought on David LaCerte, to serve “a three-year term” as senior adviser, executive counsel, and acting managing director, ...
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