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The Interior Department is ignoring the rules on ‘acting’ officials

From: Washington Post

"The July 8 editorial on the extreme number of vacancies in positions that require Senate confirmation, “Mr. Trump’s ‘acting’ government,” was a welcome indication…

Watch Out, Tortoise: Karen-Budd Falen Is in Charge.

From: Sierra

"Like putting Genghis Khan in charge of a day-care center.” That’s how a spokesperson for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility responded to Karen Budd-Falen’s…

This Chemical Kills. Why Aren’t Regulators Banning It?

From: New York Times

"Last month’s spectacular explosions at a large Philadelphia oil refinery complex injured five workers, terrorized city residents and drove up gasoline prices.…

Philadelphia Explosion Underscores Danger of Refineries Using Hydrogen Fluoride

From: Truthout

"Aging refineries are playing Russian roulette with American population centers,” said Tim Whitehouse, a former enforcement attorney with the U.S. Environmental Protection…

Lawmakers talk legislation in response to FOIA changes

From: The Hill

"It would definitely be an amendment to FOIA, those aren’t that uncommon,” Kevin Bell, staff counsel for the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, on what…


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TAMPA SEWAGE MELTDOWN EARLY ECO-TEST FOR DESANTIS

Federal Intervention Needed If State Continues to Ignore Major Pollution Violations

ALTERNATIVE FACTS ON THE RISE IN FEDERAL DECISION RECORDS

Trump Agencies Purging Dissenting Information from the Administrative Record

FLORIDA PANTHERS PAD TOWARD EXTINCTION

2018 Another High Lethality Year as Deaths Increasingly Outpace Declining Births

IS EPA TRULY TRANSPARENT NOW THAT PRUITT IS GONE?

Lawsuit Induced Wheeler to Make a New Records Policy and Transparency Vow

AGRICULTURE POISONING THE PRAIRIE POTHOLE REGION

Pesticides and Pollution Runoff Imperil North America’s “Duck Factory”