“Tennessee pollution regulators are still issuing permits and holding public hearings on proposed waste dumps despite a suspension of in-person proceedings amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a Knox News review shows. State attorneys general in 14 states, including Michigan, New York, ...

“Scott Angelle, director of the Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, brought a very particular set of relationships to his job running the government agency largely responsible for regulating the offshore oil and gas industry. Angelle’s ...

“The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said on Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency’s new guidelines for those working on toxic cleanups is confusing for employees. “EPA’s translation of this CDC guidance remains somewhat opaque” on what ...

“This marks the latest in a decades-long string of failures by EPA to protect Americans from these dangerous chemicals. Even as the scientific case for regulation grows clearer and more urgent every year, the EPA under President Trump delays and obfuscates. While the number of sites ...

“A government watchdog group is raising questions about EPA protocols for its inspectors after obtaining a copy of the agency’s health guidance for the COVID-19 pandemic. The group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), charged that the agency’s ...

“Emergency medical technicians and thermometers should be on hand when conducting toxic waste cleanups to reduce exposure to the coronavirus, the EPA said in an internal memo released Wednesday. The memo was obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and ...

“For nearly a decade, a group of farmers in the North Fork Valley joined with local tourism businesses and conservation groups to craft a resource management plan that could help the Bureau of Land Management shepherd the multiple uses of the valley’s public lands for the next 20 ...

HMM correspondent Spencer asked Tim Whitehouse, Executive Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), about the letter PEER wrote to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler regarding the agency’s current leadership as it plans to celebrate Earth Day. Read the PEER ...

“Following White House guidance issued yesterday, EPA told employees in an email last night that senior agency leadership is working on a strategy to return staffers to the workplace. Kyla Bennett, a former EPA inspector now with the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental ...

“In the weeks since the coronavirus pandemic engulfed the White House, Congress and the presidential campaign, federal agencies have responded in temporary and health-focused ways. But top political officials at agencies that regulate energy issues and the environment have been ...

“The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is facing protests after proposing that low-level radioactive waste be disposed of in commercial landfills not explicitly designed to hold it, rather than at licenced radioactive waste sites. The NRC’s proposal, issued in March, declares ...

“As President Trump tries to defend his sluggish response to the coronavirus pandemic, 18 nongovernmental organizations are pressing against agency vacancies that can hinder federal action. “We fear that the leadership vacuum in several federal agencies is weakening the nation’s ...

“The U.S. government agency tasked with regulating nuclear energy moved to massively deregulate the disposal of nuclear waste, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group known for its work representing environmental whistleblowers in government agencies. ...

“High level vacancies are hampering the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a group of organizations that focus on issues such as immigration, climate change, and government accountability. In a letter sent April 14 to Senate committee chairs ...

“Almost every bureau of the Interior Department’s vast agency ― 70,000 employees across 2,400 nationwide offices ― has had at least one employee test positive for the virus. The Interior Department has kept these numbers private, while leaving most public parks and refuges open ...

“The Trump administration’s “fumbling response” to the outbreak is a “symptom” of the lack of presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed leaders across agencies directly involved in those efforts, groups like the Project on Government Oversight, Public Employees for ...

“News broke last week that the Department of Interior (DOI) is planning to open an unprecedented number of wildlife refuges to hunting and fishing. The proposed changes, if finalized, would open over 2.3 million acres of federal land across 97 national wildlife refuges and 9 fish ...

“PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of widespread man-made chemicals that don’t break down in the environment or the human body and have been flagged as a major contaminant in sources of water across the country. Click on the headline to read the full ...

“The Bureau of Land Management has approved what it calls a “balanced” land use plan for southwest Colorado that critics say unnecessarily emphasizes energy development over conservation. The government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

“Despite calls from lawmakers, union officials and advocates, the National Park Service has not mandated that all of its locations close during the novel coronavirus outbreak. Jeff Ruch, Pacific director for the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, called NPS ...