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Turning the Toxic Tide: Florida Needs New Approach to Environmental Regulation

From: TC Palm

“IScott’s appointees brought with them a new approach to regulation, articulated in a 2011 memo by then-DEP Deputy Secretary for Regulatory Programs Jeff Littlejohn. When…

The ‘Power Behind The Throne’ At The Interior Department Could Become Head If Zinke Resigns

From: KUER

“If Zinke does resign — or he’s forced out — Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt would replace him. As second-in-command, Bernhardt runs daily operations while Zinke…

EPA Denies Petition to Stop Cyanide Use that is Killing Wildlife

From: Beyond Pesticides

“The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has denied a petition seeking to ban M-44s — cyanide-spraying apparatuses used to kill coyotes, foxes, and wild dogs…

Quick Hits: Drunk Raccoons, New Park Service Director, and Shiver in the River

From: Blue Ridge Outdoors

“Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) worry about Vela’s commitment to preserving the wilderness, pointing to Vela’s decision as Southeast…

Hunters Point Shipyard Residents Face No Radiation Risk, State Says

From: SF Weekly

“State public health officials are once again seeking to assure residents of on a segment of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard embroiled in a fraudulent cleanup…


News Releases

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”