“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 ...

“Voting can be stressful and daunting enough on its own, but in this particular election there may be extra worries on voters’ minds. Much of Colorado has a six-page ballot this year, and we wanted to take some of the stress out of making sense of the state-wide ballot initiatives ...

“Is it safe to drink tap water in Delray Beach? Maybe not, according to a watchdog agency that has released the city’s own test results showing high levels of cancer-causing chemicals. “Delray’s drinking water would not be fit for consumption in New York, Michigan, ...

“It wasn’t long after the Army Corps of Engineers hired Judith Marshall to lead its environmental compliance that she realized she had a problem. The Army Corps had no intention of complying with environmental laws, she said.” Read the PEER Story… ...

“A report on Delray Beach’s reclaimed water program concluded that the many problems resulted from “a lack of institutional control.” Tallahassee-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has issued a news release saying that Delray Beach’s drinking water ...

“The head of the U.S. Geological Survey violated the federal whistleblower protection law when he retaliated against an agency employee who had filed a complaint about his conduct, according to a new report from the Interior Department’s internal watchdog. “For the DOI generally ...

“Some 16 million acres representing one of the world’s largest preserved temperate rainforests will soon be open to logging following a Wednesday announcement from the Trump administration. In August, the federal watchdog Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the ...

“EPA promoted “National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week” on Twitter yesterday even though the agency hasn’t yet rolled out updated regulations to control lead and copper in drinking water. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler has said the updated rule would be released ...

“A long-time EPA scientist with a history of whistleblowing claims is asking the agency’s Inspector General (IG) “to investigate and remedy misrepresentations” by EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the survival times on surfaces of the virus that ...

“Through a series of appointments that appear to have bypassed the Appointments Clause of the Constitution and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, the officials leading those agencies — the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and the Office of Surface Mining ...

“Many Americans alarmed over the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a worsening climate crisis, an economic disaster on par with the Great Depression, or the White House’s surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban would sleep better if they had assurances the radioactive waste disposal is ...

“As the days tick down to next month’s presidential election, debate rages over the U.S. government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic with critics of President Donald Trump calling for his ouster due to his failure to protect the American public. And yet as mass media ...