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‘This Is the Wild West Out Here’

by Politico | February 9, 2020
“DYER, Nevada—On a cold, windy day in late October, in one of the most remote and least populated regions of the state, a half-dozen workers prepared to drill another test hole in the arid volcanic rock. They were looking for deposits of lithium, a metal that has become ...

I Had Tons of Fun Riding an E-Bike in a National Park. I Also Broke the Law. Oops.

by Los Angeles Times | February 8, 2020
“GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Calif. — I recently violated federal law high in the Marin Headlands overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. How? By riding an electric bike for a mile along the Julian Trail, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The trail is popular ...

Conservation Group: BLM Leadership Directed Changes in Local Management Plan

by The Daily Sentinel | February 7, 2020
“A conservation group on Thursday released documents obtained from the Bureau of Land Management that suggest agency leadership directed the overhaul of the resources management plan proposal for the agency’s Uncompahgre Field Office. The proposal unveiled last summer differs ...

BLM Leadership Expanded Oil Drilling in Colorado Over Local Staff Objections

by The Hill | February 6, 2020
“The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Washington office ignored the advice of its Colorado staff, deciding to expand oil and gas drilling in the southwest corner of the state because earlier plans were ‘not in line with the administration’s direction to decrease regulatory ...

Ousted EPA Official in California Says He Was Pushed out for Being Too Bipartisan

by Los Angeles Times | February 6, 2020
“Abruptly dismissed from office Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency’s top official for California and the Pacific Southwest speculated he was terminated because of his congenial relationship with Democratic politicians. In a statement released Thursday, and provided to ...

Trump’s Regional EPA Chief in California Is Suddenly Removed From His Job

by Los Angeles Times | February 5, 2020
“The Environmental Protection Agency’s top official in California was abruptly removed from office Wednesday. No reason has yet been given for Mike Stoker’s dismissal. In an email sent to staff members of the environment agency’s Pacific Southwest regional office, EPA ...

Land Bureau May Exempt Plans From Environmental Review

by Bloomberg Environment | February 4, 2020
“The Bureau of Land Management may stop studying how its long-term blueprints for millions of acres of public lands would affect the environment, according to a document shared with Bloomberg Environment. Land use plans are updated every two decades or more, and govern the management ...

The Trump Official Who Could Obliterate Public Lands

by The New Republic | February 3, 2020
“It’s a natural fit for an administration as chaotic and corrupt as President Donald Trump’s that William Perry Pendley, who loathes America’s public lands, was picked last September, and reappointed in January, to manage them. The Bureau of Land Management, which Pendley now ...

Is This the Final Word on WOTUS, or Is the Rule Just Being Kicked Downstream?

by Ohio's Country Journal | January 29, 2020
“There’s always something going on with the waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. Last September, we wrote about how the 1986/1988 WOTUS rule would replace the 2015 Obama rule until the Trump administration finalized its new rule. Well, the final rule was just announced by the ...

Trump Administration to Strip Clean Water Protection Putting the Country’s Water at Risk

by Nation of Change | January 28, 2020
“Obama-era clean water protections will soon be stripped and replaced. The Trump administration will finalize its replacement of the Waters of the United States rule by ‘rolling back protections for some wetlands and streams that run intermittently or temporarily underground,&# ...

BLM Has Put a Target on the Backs of Nevada’s Park Rangers

by Reno Gazette Journal | January 28, 2020
“Law enforcement rangers working for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management — working at much beloved places like Basin and Range National Monument — have very tough jobs. They are responsible for patrolling one of every 10 acres in the U.S. Each one of the roughly 200 rangers is now ...

EPA’s New Water Rule a Mockery of Science and the Clean Water Act

by Common Dreams | January 24, 2020
“With the Environmental Protection Agency’s own data showing that nearly half of our rivers and streams and a third of our wetlands are in “poor biological condition,” and with millions of Americans exposed to unsafe chemicals in water systems, this is a bad time to make a ...

Vern Buchanan Urges Ron DeSantis to Protect the Florida Panther During Heartland Parkway Construction

by Florida Daily | January 24, 2020
“This week, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., called on Gov. Ron DeSantis to consider protecting the endangered Florida Panther when drafting construction plans for the new Heartland Parkway. In a letter to DeSantis, Buchanan noted the 140-mile proposed highway from Polk to Collier ...

Arizona BLM Has Known About Lead Problems at Table Mesa for a Decade, OIG Says

by Phoenix New Times | January 23, 2020
“Leaders at the Bureau of Land Management in Arizona knew for years that recreational shooting sites north of Phoenix contained high levels of lead, but they failed to warn the public and their own employees, according to a federal investigation. Nor has the agency cleaned up the ...

‘This Will Be the Biggest Loss of Clean Water Protection the Country Has Ever Seen’: Trump Finalizes Clean Water Rule Replacement

by EcoWatch | January 23, 2020
“Today, the Trump administration will finalize its replacement for the Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule in a move that will strip protections from more than half of the nation’s wetlands and allow landowners to dump pesticides into waterways, or build over ...

EPA Finalizes Clean Water Rollback Amid Science Challenges

by Roll Call | January 23, 2020
“The Trump administration on Thursday finalized a rule that significantly reduces the federal government’s role in regulating waterways, fulfilling a campaign promise to farmers and energy interests and handing a win to conservatives who have pushed for changes to the Clean Water ...

SpaceX’s License to Launch Hundreds of Internet Satellites May Have Violated the Law, Experts Say. Astronomers Could Sue the FCC.

by Business Insider | January 22, 2020
“A federal agency may have violated the law when it licensed SpaceX to launch thousands of satellites, according to a forthcoming paper. That raises the possibility that disgruntled astronomers could sue. ‘If there are lots and lots of bright moving objects in the sky, it ...

Career Employees Allege EPA Leaders Silenced Them on Key Deregulation Effort

by Government Executive | January 21, 2020
“The Environmental Protection Agency suppressed the work of its career employees and dismissed legitimate science in taking a key deregulatory action, dozens of former and current employees have alleged. The employees are asking investigators to discipline the top officials ...

Daily on Energy: Trump Tries out New Climate Line of Attack

by Washington Examiner | January 21, 2020
“TRUMP TRIES OUT NEW CLIMATE LINE OF ATTACK: President Trump on government-centric plans to combat climate change Tuesday: ‘Fear and doubt is not a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism and action,’ Trump said in his address ...

Trump Hails WOTUS Overhaul as Critics Call for Investigation

by E&E News | January 20, 2020
“President Trump yesterday touted his repeal of key Clean Water Act regulations as more than three dozen current and former government officials called for an investigation into the scientific basis of his forthcoming replacement rule. The Obama-era rule was meant to clarify which ...
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