“A concerning story arose this past week from Padre Island National Seashore on the gulf coast of Texas. For decades biologists at the national seashore have run a Sea Turtle Science and Recovery Program. In short, this widely acclaimed and popular program has helped build the ...

“As the coronavirus pandemic subsides for now in the hard-hit Northeast, public health officials in the region are warning about another potentially bad summer for EEE and other insect-borne illnesses. Meanwhile an environmental group is calling on Massachusetts to avoid resorting to ...

“If every crisis presents an opportunity, then these crises present an ultimatum: we have to address climate change, the economy, justice reforms, and rebuilding our government together, and we have to do it now.” ...

“A huge controversy has erupted out at the Padre Island National Seashore involving Dr. Donna Shaver. The Director of the Sea Turtle Recovery Program there has turned whistleblower by filing a federal complaint against PINS Superintendent Eric Brunnemann’s review of her department ...

“A National Park Service review of the renowned Kemp’s ridley sea turtle recovery program at Padre Island National Seashore in Texas is calling for substantial funding cuts and programmatic changes that would greatly hamstring the program and amount to “conservation ...

“As Gov. Gavin Newsom attempts to rein in the state’s rising coronavirus cases, the agency responsible for keeping California workers safe spent the July 4 holiday visiting more than 1,000 businesses to ensure they were following safety guidelines. Newsom hailed the multi-agency ...

“Every summer, thousands of people travel to Padre Island National Seashore at dawn to cheer on sea turtle hatchlings as they are released into the surf. But after more than 40 years of supporting and celebrating the program, National Park Service officials appear to have soured on ...

“New testing has detected “forever chemicals” in the St. Mary’s River in Southern Maryland, though at levels much lower than those reported there earlier this year by an environmental activist. “Because these PFAS compounds can bioaccumulate, having PFAS at 5 or 9 parts per ...

“Donald Trump’s acting head of the Bureau of Land Management, says local authorities should have primary law-enforcement authority on federal land. Tim Whitehouse, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), said Pendley’s pronouncement no ...

“Patricia Ackerman, Democratic candidate for Nevada Congressional District 2, last Friday stated her vehement opposition to news that President Donald Trump plans to nominate William Perry Pendley to be the Bureau of Land Management Director. Last week, President Trump announced his ...

“William Perry Pendley, who once wrote that the “Founding Fathers intended all lands owned by the federal government to be sold,” last month was officially nominated by President Donald Trump to become the director of the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, ...

“The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is in the midst of a massive oil and gas lease sale in Utah. The September sale of 114,000 acres of wild lands in Utah will touch national parks, monuments, proposed wilderness and some of the prettiest red rock vistas in Utah.” ...

“As the North Atlantic right whale was placed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s list of critically endangered species Thursday, environmental protection groups accusing the U.S. government of bowing to fishing and fossil fuel industry pressure to downplay ...

“Almost a year after he was first appointed acting director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), William Perry Pendley is finally set to go before the Senate for a legally mandated confirmation hearing sometime later this year. This seems like a good opportunity to remind you, ...

“Instead of acknowledging these risks and initiating dynamic management in these newly utilized areas, NOAA is entrenched in the old way of doing things, resulting in more right whale injury and mortality,” said Kyla Bennet, science policy director for the Public Employees for ...

“Senate approval of William Perry Pendley, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management, wouldn’t affect the agency’s daily operations in any significant manner, legal experts and former senior bureau officials say. Interior in recent weeks has ...

“Environmentalists filed a complaint Wednesday with state’s inspector general over aerial spraying of insecticide to control mosquitoes carrying Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE). The disease is rare, but can be deadly. There were 12 human cases in Massachusetts last year, six ...

“As the state ramps up its response to what officials fear could be another dangerous summer for eastern equine encephalitis, environmental advocates are warning them to avoid relying on aerial spraying to reduce transmission of the deadly, mosquito-borne disease, an approach they ...

“Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Western Watersheds Project filed a supplemental complaint Monday, building off of their previous lawsuit challenging Interior’s reappointments of the heads of the Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service. In ...

“An environmental watchdog group alleges that William Perry Pendley’s nomination as director of the Bureau of Land Management is illegal under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. The group PEER, for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, says in a supplemental ...