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From: Common Dreams “”As a result of the change, an estimated 60-90 percent of U.S. waterways could lose federal protections that currently shield them from pollution and development,” The Intercept’s Sharon Lerner reported on Friday, citing an analysis by Public ...

From: Santa Monica Daily Press “PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) released a press release Dec. 5 claiming SMMUSD’s proposed 5-year Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) clean up extension would put students and staff in classrooms that would expose them to illegal ...

From: TC Palm “IScott’s appointees brought with them a new approach to regulation, articulated in a 2011 memo by then-DEP Deputy Secretary for Regulatory Programs Jeff Littlejohn. When violations occur, he wrote, regulators’ first consideration “should be whether you can bring ...

From: KUER “If Zinke does resign — or he’s forced out — Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt would replace him. As second-in-command, Bernhardt runs daily operations while Zinke meets with politicians or travels to devastating wildfires. “He’s thought by many to be the ...

From: Beyond Pesticides “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has denied a petition seeking to ban M-44s — cyanide-spraying apparatuses used to kill coyotes, foxes, and wild dogs that may prey on livestock. Submitted to the EPA in August 2017 by the Center for Biological Diversity ...

From: Blue Ridge Outdoors “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) worry about Vela’s commitment to preserving the wilderness, pointing to Vela’s decision as Southeast director to allow off-road vehicles in public lands adjacent to Florida’s Big Cypress National ...

From: SF Weekly “State public health officials are once again seeking to assure residents of on a segment of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard embroiled in a fraudulent cleanup that the there are no radiation risks. Calls for retesting of Parcel A-1, where more than 300 homes sit, ...

From: Breitbart News “Advocating for a candidate to be impeached, and thus potentially disqualified from holding federal office, is clearly directed at the failure of that candidate’s campaign for federal office,” the rule states. “Similarly, advocating against a candidate’s ...

From: Wayne Count Independent “A modern cowboy, but without the stereotypical bowed legs and lid of chaw in his back pocket, Bob “Action” Jackson has settled down on his little Yellowstone on the south fork of the Chariton River near Promise City, Iowa. Bison graze in the shade of a ...

From: Wayne Count Independent “Yellowstone Park shows no curiosity about why and how Mountain Bison are different,’” Jackson said, noting the park fears the legal consequences of recognizing differences. ‘Yellowstone’s Mountain Bison of Pelican Valley need to be recognized for ...

From: Vanity Fair “But while Trump can’t stop talking about his impending political crisis, Washington is warning federal employees to keep quiet. On Wednesday, the Office of Special Counsel, issued new guidance barring some 2 million federal employees from discussing the topic of ...

From: Government Executive “Guidance on the 2018 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey issued by then-OPM Director Jeff Pon in April that said some employees would participate in a pilot program of an “improved form of the FEVS” with “clarifications to definitions (e.g., leadership ...

From: New York Times ““People who use the term ‘resist’ could be expressing views about any number of matters, and the presumption that they are specifically advocating for the defeat of a candidate in 2020 strikes me as crazy and raises significant First Amendment concerns,” he ...

From: Grand Canyon News “In an interview with Wyoming Public Media, Jeff Ruch, executive director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), the moves suggest the investigation into Lehnertz could take a long time. He also said her removal appeared to be a case of ...

From: Government Executive “Scientists inside the 13 agencies that prepared the major report on climate change released quietly on Friday are said to be relieved that the Trump administration did not alter their work, but puzzled by the timing of publication. That’s according to ...

From: National Parks Traveler “The agency has failed to forward wilderness recommendations to the President, conduct legally-mandated wilderness assessments, prepare wilderness management plans, revise legally-insufficient wilderness assessments or take a myriad of other steps necessary ...

From: Cascadia Times “Starting in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the Trump administration is proposing to eliminate long-standing rules protecting 50 million acres of ancient forests across the country from logging and roadbuilding, raising new alarms about the president’s ...

From: Salon “After the Flint crisis, the EPA asked states in 2016 to collect information about where lead pipes were and publish that information online on local or state websites. Nine states, including Kansas and North Carolina, told the EPA they wouldn’t or didn’t intend to ...

From: Bloomberg “Environmental scientists who’ve been working for years to curtail mercury pollution are frustrated by the potential emergence of a market for mercury propulsion, says Dan Jaffe, a professor of environmental chemistry at the University of Washington at Bothell. “Using ...

From: Inside OSHA “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is faulting the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board’s (CSB) spending on legal fees in a dispute with the board’s former managing director, saying that CSB’s continued focus on ...