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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 ...

The nature of Yosemite hangs in the balance as national parks juggle growth, preservation

by USA Today | September 5, 2019
Each summer, cars fill the roads that snake through Yosemite, clogging some of the nation’s most iconic scenery with a churning gridlock. There were days this season when more than 8,000 vehicles passed through the gates, and the park’s website warns that visitors may spend hours ...

CSB ends appeal of ruling on chemical emissions disclosure

by Safety+Health Magazine | August 26, 2019
“The Chemical Safety Board has dropped its appeal of a federal court decision that requires the agency to regulate the reporting of chemical emissions resulting from industrial incidents, according to a motion filed Aug. 8. On Feb. 4, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court ...

Earthtalk: Cell towers in national parks

by Arizona Daily Sun | August 26, 2019
“Cell phone towers have sprouted up in national parks across the country because the National Park Service lacks any coherent policy and instead lets telecommunications companies decide where and how many towers will be constructed,” says Jeff Ruch of the non-profit Public ...

Hightower: If You Drain the Swamp, Where Do the Swamp Critters Go?

by | August 26, 2019
From: Magic Valley “Pendley’s zealotry carries him even deeper into paranoiac nuttiness. He lists a sextet of villains he believes are “at war” with western civilization: radical environmentalists, federal bureaucrats, the media, academia, Hollywood and “ignorant” Americans ...

CDC scientist George Luber seeking whistleblower protection

by Chemistry World | August 26, 2019
“George Luber alleges that the agency retaliated against him for speaking out on climate change and for raising concerns that it was shifting funds intended for climate change and health programmes to other areas. Represented by the non-profit Public Employees for Environmental ...

Climate Politics

by | August 26, 2019
From: Resilience “George Luber, an official with the Asthma and Community Health Branch of the National Center for Environmental Health, intends to file a whistleblower complaint over his treatment at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after having raised concerns about ...

Some Call Foul On ‘Delay’ of Trump Water-Pumping Promise

by | August 21, 2019
From: The Business Journal “Despite that claim, a report was ready but never released, said Jeff Ruch, Pacific region director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit service organization for local, state and federal environmental and public health ...

EPA Exceeded Trump’s Deregulatory Expectations

by | August 17, 2019
From: Government Executive “EPA under the Trump administration has been under intense scrutiny for its regulation rollbacks, dismissal of scientists and political interference in agencies’ science work. At EPA, “Decisions for the most part are made without consulting or seeking ...

Top CDC Health and Climate Scientist Files Whistleblower Complaint

by | August 17, 2019
From: Inside Climate News “The Trump administration’s drive to cut climate change out of federal research and policy has been underway at the Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department since Trump took office. The scientists and their advocates say it has now ...

U.S. climate scientist removed from job to file whistleblower complaint

by | August 17, 2019
From: CNBC “A climate scientist for the Trump administration’s health protection agency who was ordered by his agency to drop work on climate issues will file a whistleblower complaint this week with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, his lawyers said on Wednesday. George Luber, ...
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