“The Nov. 15 editorial “To catch a killer” ​was spot on as far as the world’s need to learn from the current pandemic to prevent the next one. It identified several concrete steps but omitted one. ​A​ travesty​ occurred​ in ​April​ when President Trump, based ...

“President Donald Trump‘s late-in-term appointment of a former Northrop Grumman Corp. vice president as an adviser to the federal chemical safety board has raised eyebrows in the worker advocacy community. As the Trump administration winds down, there is also the question of Lemos ...

“More testing has found so-called “forever chemicals” in a striped bass, blue crab and oyster from the Chesapeake Bay, as well as in drinking water from household taps in Maryland’s Montgomery County. Laboratory analyses released by the nonprofit group Public Employees for ...

“Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia wants to purge a member of the planning and zoning board for saying something that she didn’t like. Rob Long is that board member. A civil engineer by training, he’s also chairman of the Palm Beach County Soil and Water Conservation District. ...

“The National Park Service has issued a first-round denial to NASA’s request to conserve one of America’s most contaminated sites, a move that critics said would allow the government to sidestep cleanup efforts. NASA applied to add the Santa Susana Field Laboratory near ...

“Today, four years into its second century, the National Park Service is stumbling forward into a new era, without a plan, a leader or, most importantly, a vision for how to both protect and enhance what is often called America’s best idea. The agency has just received one of the ...

“The non-profit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charges that RIDEM has failed to enforce the Clean Water Act. “One of Rhode Island’s picturesque waterfronts appears to have a chronic sewage problem requiring immediate enforcement action, according to a ...

“Rob Long may have written one too many columns critical of the city to continue serving as vice chair of the Delray Beach Planning and Zoning Board. Mayor Shelly Petrolia called for Long’s removal for his most recent column saying he was “appalled” by the city’s response to ...

“Critics said environmental enforcement under President-elect Joe Biden might be limited by the Trump EPA’s defiance — one day after agency enforcement chief Susan Bodine warned that the next administration must not overreach in its pursuit of environmental crimes. But those ...

“U.S. Park Police email traffic during the June protests at Lafayette Square shows that agency officials were unaware which law enforcement agencies were assisting with the heavily criticized government response as demonstrators were overwhelmed by chemical irritants. The heavily ...

“A collection of emails released today shows how the U.S. Park Police struggled to maintain its pace during its June crackdown on protesters at Lafayette Square. Altogether, the Park Police released 101 pages of emails in response to a request made under the Freedom of Information ...

“The Trump EPA’s agenda is expected to be crowded in the coming months as officials aim to lock in deregulatory approaches amid a possible transition to a Biden administration, with some observers also expressing concern that the president’s recent civil-service executive order ...

“EPA chief of staff Mandy Gunasekara has been tweeting allegations about Democrats stealing votes this week from Pennsylvania, a pivotal battleground state that’s still counting ballots. Gunasekara was a senior EPA air official who resigned in 2019 before returning this year as ...

“An environmental action group is calling on the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to “intervene” in citizen allegations of sewage pollution in Sakonnet Harbor. “One of Rhode Island’s picturesque waterfronts appears to have a chronic sewage problem requiring immediate ...

“An environmental group has filed a complaint with the federal Environmental Protection Agency claiming that sewage is being regularly discharged into Sakonnet Harbor, the site of the high-end Sakonnet Point Club. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility says it filed the ...

“An executive order issued by US President Donald Trump has sown confusion and fear among government scientists in the country. Announced by the White House on 21 October, the order creates a job category for government workers — such as scientists — that makes it easier to fire ...

“The Bureau of Land Management has published its final rule on electric bikes. Unlike Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s 2019 order, it will be up to local BLM field offices to conduct an environmental review and then decide whether to allow e-bikes on certain trails. Several ...

“The allegations about pollution in Sakonnet Harbor started being made to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management around March 2019. But the DEM failed to take seriously and act on the concerns that raw sewage was possibly being dumped in the harbor in violation of ...

“Since 2016, the US president has ditched, sidelined or diluted at least 100 Obama-era climate reforms. He has opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to fresh drilling initiatives. He has licensed new oil pipeline developments and liquified natural gas terminals. He ...

“William Perry Pendley was acting Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director for 14 months before a federal judge removed him in late September. The judge found that Pendley’s name was never submitted to the U.S. Senate for confirmation, and further that Pendley’s authority “did ...