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Death Valley’s Park Service Wants Them Gone. But Are Wild Donkeys Really the Enemy?

by Undark | October 14, 2019
DEATH VALLEY National Park is stunningly barren. Silt hillsides crowned with rock and scree give way to dry streambeds and barren salt flats, the air dancing under a pitiless sun. The largest park in the lower 48 states, it contains the lowest elevation point in the country — nearly 300 ...

Bison group sues to get FOIA fulfilled; Yellowstone bison population reported

by KPVI | October 14, 2019
A Montana-based bison advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Yellowstone National Park and the Department of Interior after not receiving requested records through Freedom of Information Act requests more than a year ago. Attorneys for Buffalo Field Campaign filed the complaints in U.S ...

Maryland’s renewable energy facilities break pollution rules, say groups calling for enforcement

by The Baltimore Sun | October 11, 2019
Many facilities that supply Maryland with renewable energy have exceeded pollution limits or otherwise broken environmental rules, violating a state law, according to a complaint sent by environmental groups to state energy and law enforcement officials. Maryland law says that any company ...

Why we can’t run from ‘forever chemicals’

by MNN | October 10, 2019
Chemicals called perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been used for decades to make products more stain-resistant, waterproof or nonstick. They’re used in cookware to keep food from clinging to pots and pans. They’re incorporated into clothing, like rain gear, to help repel ...

Sierra Club sues EPA over claim that climate change ‘is 50 to 75 years out’

by The Hill | October 10, 2019
The Sierra Club sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday after the agency refused to turn over any documents to back up Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s claim that climate change “is 50 to 75 years out.” The Sierra Club had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ...

Toxic Chemicals Are Found in Blades of Artificial Turf

by The Boston Globe | October 9, 2019
“FRANKLIN — For two years, an abandoned pile of artificial turf had decomposed on a bluff here, a few feet above wetlands that are part of the suburb’s drinking water supply. Nearby, ripped bags with the infill of the turf, tiny pellets of shredded tires, littered the embankment ...

Toxic PFAS Chemicals Found in Artificial Turf

by The Intercept | October 8, 2019
PFAS CHEMICALS HAVE been identified in synthetic turf, according to lab tests performed on several samples of the artificial grass that were shared with The Intercept. The presence of the chemicals, members of a class that has been associated with multiple health problems, including ...

What the BLM Shake-Up Could Mean for Public Lands and Their Climate Impact

by Inside Climate News | October 8, 2019
The changes underway at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management might not seem like much: A few hundred employees are being relocated from offices near the White House and dispersed throughout the West, while agency leaders move in next door to energy companies in newly leased headquarters in ...

Groups Returning To Court To Force FAA To Adopt Air Tour Management Plans For Parks

by National Parks Traveler | October 8, 2019
Unsatisfied with how the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Park Service have responded to a lawsuit to force them to implement air tour management plans for airspace over national parks, two groups are heading back to court to force the agencies to accomplish that goal. ...

BLM Whistleblower’s Appeal to be Heard in Several Weeks

by The Ely Times | October 5, 2019
Craig Hover a 21 year veteran with the Bureau of Land Management in Ely was dismissed earlier this year in April, and has since challenged his dismissal, with the help of  Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).  Charges that this discharge was illegal retaliation in ...

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 ...
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