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Colorado Orders Staff to Ignore Air Pollution Violations  

March 30, 2021

Air Modelers Request Federal Intervention and Whistleblower Protection   

PFAS Found in Widely Used Insecticide  

March 26, 2021

Environmental groups call on EPA and Maryland to find and eliminate source 

USGS Fires Lab Biosafety Whistleblower 

March 22, 2021

Scientist’s Year-Long Limbo Ends; Groups Push for Accrediting USGS Labs   

USGS Wildlife Labs Criticized Over Animal Care 

March 19, 2021

Call for Independent Accreditation of All USGS  Live Animal Facilities 

National Parks Screwing Up Cell Tower Permits  

March 18, 2021

Nearly One-Third Invalid or Expired; Call to Extend Permit Moratorium  

Call to Restore Ban on Farming Risks in Wildlife Refuges

March 17, 2021

GM Crops and Neonic Insecticides Incompatible with Refuge Purposes  

Critical Tsunami Warning System Inoperative for Days

March 16, 2021

NOAA Scientists Ordered Not to Discuss DART Outages on Social Media

Florida’s Clearwater Awash in Sewage Violations

March 11, 2021

More than 400 Sewage Overflows in Last Five Years; Almost No Enforcement

Fraud Charged in EPA Pesticide Risk Assessment

February 25, 2021

Downgrade of Fumigant Cancer-Potential Due to Pervasive Misconduct

EPA Scientists Sound Alarm on Chemical Assessments

February 24, 2021

Agency’s Toxic Internal Chemistry Reflected in New Employee Survey

Record Manatee Mortality in New Year 

February 22, 2021

More Than 300 Die in Six Weeks; Vast Majority Not Necropsied

NOAA Kisses Off Right Whale Survival  

February 19, 2021

New NOAA Finding at Odds with Science, Facts, and the Law  

National Academy Blisters EPA Chemical Risk Assessments   

February 17, 2021

EPA Approach Not “Comprehensive, Workable, Objective, and Transparent”

Newsom Backs Off Santa Susana Clean-Up Guarantee 

February 11, 2021

Permanent Pollution OK Is Focus of Closed-Door Negotiation with Boeing  

Federal Wildlife Disease Labs in Dangerous Shape

February 4, 2021

Biosafety Breaches Risk Zoonotic Outbreaks and Hinder COVID Research  

Tongass Timber Sales Mismanaged – Official Audit 

February 1, 2021

“Pressure to Meet Timber Sale Goals” Led to Violations and Financial Losses

Vilsack’s Disturbing Suppression of USDA Science 

January 29, 2021

His Biotech Advocacy Quashed Research Showing Adverse Effects   

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