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Federal regulators take heat from both sides of the right whale-gear debate

by Bangor Daily News | October 5, 2019
Federal fisheries regulators are taking heat from both sides of the debate over protections for the endangered North Atlantic right whale. The latest salvo comes from a conservation group representing public employees, which says the National Marine Fisheries Service ignored its own ...

Amid Legal Questions, Contract Extended For Acting Head Of Land Management

by NPR | October 3, 2019
The Trump administration says the controversial acting head of the Bureau of Land Management is keeping his job through the end of the year, despite legal questions surrounding his appointment. Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: So why would President Trump leave a federal agency without a ...

Federal agency accused of misrepresenting views of its scientists in opening fishing grounds off Cape

by Boston Globe | October 3, 2019
The federal agency responsible for protecting North Atlantic right whales misrepresented the views of its own scientists to justify its decision to open long-closed fishing grounds off Nantucket last year, putting the critically endangered species at greater risk, according to an ...

Seeking justice, whistleblowers find a system stacked against them

by Deseret News | October 1, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY — The anonymous whistleblower whose complaint sparked an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump could be a prized witness for the House Intelligence Committee, but must navigate a complicated legal framework to do so without facing retaliation. California ...

Stop Attacking the Right to Report

by Project on Government Oversight | October 1, 2019
In the swirl of the news cycle about revelations coming from an intelligence whistleblower and misguided but predictable attacks on them, we want to set some facts straight. The whistleblower’s complaint documented his urgent concern that President Trump pressured the president of ...

Report: South Dakota has worst whistleblower laws in the country

by Keloland | September 26, 2019
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — As whistleblower laws become a topic of discussion across the country, KELOLAND News looked at the laws in South Dakota. According to a report from Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility, the state has 23 out of 100 points in a 2018 report card. Read ...

Glacier Park Officially Allows E-bikes

by Daily Inter Lake | September 19, 2019
The National Park Service on Thursday announced it would allow electric bikes in Glacier National Park and other national parks on roads and trails where traditional bikes are allowed. This means Glacier visitors will be able to use e-bikes when traveling Going-to-the-Sun Road and other ...

“Forever Chemical” Requires Cradle to Grave Approach

by YubaNet.com | September 19, 2019
Washington, DC, Sept. 19, 2019 — The absence of any federal standards for tracking and managing wastes contaminated with per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) poses a major and growing threat to our health, water, and soil, according to a rule-making petition filed today by Public ...

Firm with Spotty Past Regains State’s Car Inspection Contract

by The Boston Globe | September 18, 2019
“The company that developed Massachusetts’ first auto emissions inspection program — technology that proved to be inaccurate for the first five years of its use — has won back the contract to install its equipment in garages across the state. Applus Technologies Inc. was ...

Trump puts opponent of public lands in charge of public lands

by KTBS | September 12, 2019
For generations, our country has been Mother Nature’s steward, setting aside and protecting important expanses of public lands for posterity. But what if these lands and natural resources suddenly got a “steward” who was a predator, rather than a protector? Meet William Perry Pendley ...

Report: Using funds to keep parks open in government shutdown violated law

by Tucson Sentinel | September 12, 2019
WASHINGTON – The Trump Administration violated federal law when it diverted funds for national park improvements toward keeping places like Grand Canyon National Park open during the last government shutdown, the Government Accountability Office has now reported. The 17-page legal ...

Trump Plans for Oil Drilling in Arctic Refuge Clear Big Hurdle

by The Wall Street Journal | September 12, 2019
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration said that oil drilling in part of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would have a negligible environmental impact, clearing the way for lease sales to oil companies this year. The finding by the U.S. Department of Interior was backed by Alaskan ...

A Colorado wildlife refuge will allow hunting and fishing for the first time

by Daily Camera | September 12, 2019
BOISE, Idaho — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is expanding hunting and fishing in 77 national wildlife refuges, including one in Colorado, in a move that critics contend is deferring management to states and could harm wildlife. The Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and ...

Wildlife, not visitors, take precedence at National Bison Range

by KBZK | September 11, 2019
Managers of the National Bison Range will keep wildlife as a priority, but visitors will get a few more amenities under a final management plan. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reiterated its intent to focus on wildlife for at least the next 15 years in its final draft of the National ...

Trump administration expands hunting and fishing in wildlife refuges

by The Washington Post | September 11, 2019
President Trump’s administration said Tuesday that it is expanding hunting and fishing in 77 national wildlife refuges, in a move that critics say could harm wildlife. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said hunters and anglers can shoot and cast their rods on 2,200 square miles of ...

A more peaceful National Park experience could be coming soon

by Lonely Planet | September 10, 2019
The action is nearly two decades in the making. Although Congress passed the National Park Air Tour Management Act in 2000, tasking both agencies with developing management strategies to limit commercial air-tour operators and create incentives for quiet aircraft, nothing has come to ...

‘Forever Chemicals’ Now Found in State Schools

by The Boston Globe | September 9, 2019
“STOW — The water fountains have been turned off, wrapped in plastic, or fitted with a device to prevent students from using them. Much of the food preparation has moved off campus, and a water jug sits in the kitchen sink, replacing the faucet. The bathrooms are covered with signs ...

Republicans seek to weaken environmental appeals board

by Salon | September 8, 2019
Republicans are trying to weaken a federal board that helps minority and low-income communities challenge how much pollution can be released in their neighborhoods by power plants and factories. The Environmental Appeals Board would be stripped of its ability to hear appeals of EPA-issued ...

It’s Time To Get The Lead Out Of Hunting Ammo

by Mountain Journal | September 5, 2019
How many times have we used the phrase “get the lead out” to encourage action on this or that issue? Well, it’s time to take these words literally and get the lead out of our hunting ammunition; hunters, it’s time to go lead-free. Why? The following words from a Yellowstone ...

NHTSA Snuffs Carbon Monoxide Safeguards

by YubaNet.com | September 5, 2019
Washington, DC, Sept. 5, 2019 — More than 1,500 people die annually from motor vehicle-related carbon monoxide poisoning, yet the nation’s transportation safety watchdog has taken no preventative actions, according to documents obtained through a lawsuit brought by Public Employees ...
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