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Water tests show toxins near Rensselaer landfill, environmental groups say

by Times Union | March 14, 2020
“Water tests taken at three locations near the Dunn Landfill found elevated levels of toxic chemicals, environmentalist groups said Saturday. The groups, the Rensselaer Environmental Coalition and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the toxic levels of PFAS ...

Blue Ridge Parkway Roads and Trails Swell to 15 Million Visitors in 2019, Budget Shrinks

by Citizen Times | March 10, 2020
“Nancy Midgette, in her volunteer role as a ‘Craggy Rover,’ acting as a helping arm to the Blue Ridge Parkway rangers at Craggy Gardens, learned she can talk for four hours straight. That’s about how long she spent talking to visitors on her four-hour shifts last summer ...

How Trump Has Filled High-Level Jobs Without Senate Confirmation Votes

by NPR | March 9, 2020
“The titles are a mouthful. There’s the deputy director exercising the authority of director for the National Park Service, and the senior official performing the duties of the director at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is how President Trump is filling dozens ...

USFW Finds ‘No Significant Impact’ of Drilling on Baca Refuge; Lexam Given Green Light?

by The Crestone Eagle | March 9, 2020
“On Wednesday, October 22, 2008 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) released a Final Environmental Assessment for the Planned Gas and Oil Exploration on Baca National Wildlife Refuge, Saguache County, Colorado (Final EA) authorizing the Canadian firm Lexam Explorations (U.S.A ...

Cal-OSHA, Coronavirus, Worker Dangers & Crisis In CA with Dr. Larry Rose, Former Director

by indybay.org | March 8, 2020
“Dr. Larry Rose, former Cal-OSHA Medical Director talks about the serious staffing crisis at the agency with only 1 doctor and 1 nurse for California’s 19 million workers. He also talks about how this affects the health and safety of not only workers but the public and the ...

Proposed Federal Rules Would Allow More Killing by States of Fish-Eating Cormorants

by newyorkupstate | March 6, 2020
“A federal lawsuit put a halt in 2016 to many lethal measures being used to controlling growing numbers of double-crested cormorants in New York and 23 other states east of the Mississippi River. That may soon change as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is currently soliciting ...

New Sagebrush Rebellion Prompts Look at Who Controls Old West (2)

by Bloomberg Environment | March 5, 2020
“A warm winter in the sagebrush-flanked valleys of northern Nevada has left snow-free grasses where rancher J.J. Goicoechea has his federal grazing allotment ripe for his cows to feed—if only he was allowed to use it this time of year. For years, he’s argued in vain that ranchers ...

Playing Politics With Science Spawns New Threat to Endangered Whales

by Roll Call | March 5, 2020
“Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned that blasting air guns in an area where a rare whale migrates and gives birth could push it closer to extinction. But those findings conflicted with the Trump administration’s push for drilling in the ...

Greens’ Complaint Charges Trump Admin With Purging Enemies

by E&E News | March 5, 2020
“The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a complaint today over what they charge is the administration’s intent to fire federal career staff who are disloyal to President Trump. The complaint, filed with the Office of Special Counsel, claims top White ...

Lawmakers Vow They’ll Ground Sightseeing Flights

by E&E News | March 3, 2020
“With thousands of helicopters flying over Hawaii Volcanoes National Park every year, Democratic Rep. Ed Case says the situation has clearly gotten out of control. ‘That’s no way to run a national park,’ Case, a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, told ...

Op-Ed | What’s Become Of The National Park Service’s Focus On History?

by National Parks Traveler | March 2, 2020
“While overall employment in the agency has dropped by 3,500 or 16 percent, since 2011, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the number of historians in the Park Service has taken a much greater hit, percentage-wise, dropping from 449 in 2010 to just 149 ...

A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research

by The New York Times | March 2, 2020
“An official at the Interior Department embarked on a campaign that has inserted misleading language about climate change — including debunked claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is beneficial — into the agency’s scientific reports, according to documents ...

National Park 2019 Visitation Reaches More Than 327 Million

by National Parks Traveler | February 27, 2020
“More than 327 million visitors descended on the National Park System in 2019, a number that is seen as the third-highest single year tally dating to 1904, yet the head count comes at a time when some parks are overcrowded, National Park Service ranks are depleted, and Congress ...

She Blew the Whistle on Pathogens That Escaped From a Government Lab. Now She’s Being Fired

by Vice | February 27, 2020
“A career scientist who works for the U.S. government is alleging that her supervisors have retaliated against her for sounding an alarm about biosafety and workplace hazards. Her lawyers claim that she has been unfairly targeted for complaining about a litany of issues at a ...

Rolling out a Plan

by The Durango Telegraph | February 27, 2020
“The latest idea coming from the City of Durango’s Natural Lands Preservation Advisory Board is to find a future home for the next big thing – e-bikes. At the heart of it all is the idea to create a new system of user-specific, directional trails for electric bicycles, or e-bikes ...

Refuge Conveyance Sparks Concern About Public Land Transfers and a Disclaimer

by Valley Journal | February 26, 2020
“MONTANA – A proposal by U.S. Sen. Steve Daines to convey the National Bison Range to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes has generated a mixture of excitement, concern and outright opposition in Montana. The provision, included in a broader bill settling the historic water ...

Oil Industry Watching Philadelphia’s Move to Ban Toxic Chemical

by Bloomberg Environment | February 26, 2020
“Philadelphia leaders hope their attempt to ban hydrogen fluoride from oil refinery processes within city limits will spark other regulation of the chemical compound across the country. The city’s proposal comes after a fire and explosion at Philadelphia Energy Solutions’ Girard ...

Gianforte Talks Good Neighbor Authority With State, Federal Foresters

by Missoulian | February 25, 2020
“U.S. Representative Greg Gianforte came to Missoula Tuesday to learn how state and federal foresters are working together. ‘I’m here to listen,’ the Republican Congressman and gubernatorial candidate told a group of state and federal forest managers at the U.S. Forest ...

USGS Whistleblower Alleges Poor Lab Conditions, Water Pollution

by Bloomberg Environment | February 25, 2020
“A U.S. Geological Survey lab in Seattle leached pathogen-laced wastewater into a Seattle wetland, possibly endangering salmon and trout, and has attempted to fire an employee who blew the whistle on the lab, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The USGS ...

Musing From The Parks | Hunting Bandelier, Employee Housing, Smith’s Job

by National Parks Traveler | February 24, 2020
“If you’re paying attention, the press release touting the effort of U.S. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico to rebrand Bandelier National Monument as a national park sounds noble. It’s what he’s not publicly promoting in that legislation that you should to pay attention ...
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