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U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein Introduces Bill to Protect Congressional Whistleblowers from Retaliation

by Sierra Sun Times | August 9, 2020
“Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Thursday introduced the Congressional Whistleblower Protection Act, a bill to strengthen protections for federal whistleblowers who share valuable information with Congress. The bill is endorsed by the ...

New leadership at Arches, Canyonlands

by Moab Sun News | August 7, 2020
“Patricia Trap assumed her new role as superintendent of the Southeast Utah Group Area National Parks on August 2. Kate Cannon, who held the position since 2006, retired in January. The group includes both Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, as well as Hovenweep and Natural ...

Park Service head retires; successor quickly named

by Roll Call | August 7, 2020
“The acting head of the National Park Service abruptly announced his retirement on Friday, vacating a role that a Senate-confirmed nominee has not held during the entire Trump administration. David Vela, a 30-year career NPS official who assumed the role of acting director of the ...

Safety Agency Trump Wants Shut Moves Ahead with ‘Quorum of One’

by Bloomberg Law | August 7, 2020
“The new chairwoman of a federal agency that investigates major industrial accidents has an unusual problem: she’s the only person on its five-member board, and President Donald Trump wants it shut down. Katherine Lemos said she plans to continue the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s ...

Vela Out As Acting National Park Service Director

by National Parks Traveler | August 7, 2020
“David Vela reportedly was replaced Friday as acting director of the National Park Service, the latest upheaval the organization has endured under the Trump administration. There was no official word from the Park Service on Friday morning of the change, but three sources told  ...

National Parks chief exit sparks concerns over replacement

by The Hill | August 7, 2020
“Acting National Park Service (NPS) Director David Vela is retiring, he announced Friday, leaving the job amid a lawsuit challenging the legality of his tenure in the post. The lawsuit from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) challenging continued use of ...

Delray Drama Continues as City Could Face Water Investigation, Unpacking Boca BPD Candidates

by Boca Raton Magazine | August 6, 2020
“Palm Beach County Inspector General John Carey said his office is determining whether to investigate Delray Beach’s problem-plagued water system. This week, the Tallahassee office of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility issued a news release stating that the ...

After a year on job, public lands chief overdue for confirmation hearing, Democrats say

by Roll Call | August 6, 2020
“More than a year into the job that is officially still temporary, William Perry Pendley, the acting head of the Bureau of Land Management, is doing things that may be permanent, and Senate Democrats are seeking a chance to hold him to account. At Interior, heads of the BLM and the ...

Top mine regulator dogged by legal questions

by E&E News | August 6, 2020
“As President Trump nears the end of his first term, the federal agency tasked with protecting the environment from the impacts of coal mining still does not have a confirmed director. The Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement oversees state ...

Massachusetts Enacts New Measures for Mosquito Management with Pros and Cons

by Beyond Pesticides | August 4, 2020
“Last month Massachusetts lawmakers finalized, and the Governor subsequently signed, emergency legislation S.2757, aimed at revamping the state’s approach to mosquito management. The final version of this mosquito reform bill continues to include certain problematic provisions, but ...

A ‘bigoted and divisive extremist’: NAACP takes on BLM chief

by E&E News | August 3, 2020
“A large coalition of environmental and social justice groups, including the NAACP, urged members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in a letter today to reject Pendley. Among other things, the letter cites Pendley’s “track record of dismantling the very ...

Endangered turtles facing a new threat: budget cuts

by San Antonio Express News | July 28, 2020
“Decades of conservation efforts have brought the Kemp’s ridley sea turtles back from the brink of extinction. It now looks like their future may be in peril once again. The National Park Service is proposing massive cuts in conservation officers. It’s a change that could have a ...

Trump pick to lead BLM has complicated history with public lands

by Durango Herald | July 27, 2020
“William Perry Pendley, the longtime president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative legal fund that has fought the federal government on a host of issues in the American West, is now preparing for confirmation hearings to become the permanent director of the Bureau ...

EPA overhauls permit appeals process

by E&E News | July 23, 2020
“EPA yesterday finalized a rule to speed up industry permit appeals, overhauling the decades-old process at the agency. In past decades, more states and tribes have assumed permitting authority under the law, EPA added. The final rule, the agency said, “clarifies the EAB’ ...

Western Democrats Take Aim At Acting BLM Chief Pendley

by Wyoming Public Media | July 22, 2020
“On Monday, Montana’s Democratic governor Steve Bullock filed a lawsuit to block William Perry Pendley from using the powers of a BLM director. Bullock, who is also running for a Senate seat, argues that it’s illegal for Pendley to use that authority without Senate confirmation, ...

Enthusiasm over the environment is down — we must stay vigilant

by The Hill | July 22, 2020
“As the presidential primaries began, a February Pew Research poll found that for the first time concern for environmental protection among two-thirds of Americans nearly equaled their concern for the economy. Concern over climate climbed to equal concern about jobs for half of ...

Unfit to Lead and Unqualified to Serve: Why William Perry Pendley Cannot be the Head of the Bureau of Land Management

by Wildlife News | July 21, 2020
“Amid the COVID-19 crisis and the uprisings against police brutality and systemic racism, it is understandable if many Americans overlooked the Trump administration’s continued attacks on the management of public lands and the Constitution’s mandates about how our leaders are ...

Mont. governor sues to block Pendley’s ‘unlawful’ tenure

by E&E News | July 21, 2020
“Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has added his name to the growing list of those challenging the legality of William Perry Pendley’s authority to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Bullock’s lawsuit is similar to one filed in May by the Public Employees for Environmental ...

Bullock sues to boot controversial public lands bureau director as he awaits confirmation

by The Hill | July 21, 2020
“The controversial acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley, is facing another lawsuit challenging his service as he awaits Senate confirmation. A Monday suit, filed in Montana Gov. Steve Bullock‘s (D) capacity as governor, challenges Pendley’s ...

PINS Sea Turtle Science and Recovery program funding cut by superintendent

by Corpus Christi Caller Times | July 20, 2020
“Donna Shaver, chief of the Division of Sea Turtle Science and Recovery at Padre Island National Seashore, filed a complaint against Eric Brunnemann, the PINS superintendent, for his review of her department which plans on decreasing funding. Shaver, who is under a gag order by ...
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