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RYAN ZINKE'S GREAT AMERICAN FIRE SALE

From: The New Yorker

"In a speech to the National Petroleum Council last September, Zinke claimed that a third of the career civil servants under his command were “not loyal to the…

AS SCIENTISTS MARCH, FEDERAL RESEARCHERS WEATHER TRUMP STORM

From: Wired

"It’s more benign neglect,” Ruch says of Trump-administration leadership at various agencies. “Science isn’t being used to inform decision making. They don’t need it, they…

AFTER BILLION-DOLLAR SUPERFUND CLEANUP, FOIA'D DOCUMENTS SHOW QUESTIONABLE DATA

From: Muckrock

"In what’s been dubbed the “biggest case of eco-fraud in U.S. history,” a contractor paid over $300 million to help clean a Cold War nuclear laboratory appears to have…

S.F. SUPERVISOR CALLS FOR HEARING INTO HUNTERS POINT CLEANUP

From: KQED News

"San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen is calling for a hearing into problems plaguing the cleanup of radioactive material from the Hunters Point Shipyard, after a federal…

EPA LETTER REVEALS NAVY'S DOWNPLAY OF RADIOACTIVE SOIL IN SF'S BAYVIEW

From: ABC7News

"This week, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility published a letter to the Navy. In it, the EPA says they found 90 and 97 percent of the soil samples…


News Releases

JERSEY RUSHES SCIENCE BOARD NAMES TO BEAT COURT ORDER

DEP Science Advisory Board Studded with Industry Employees and Consultants

INTERIOR SCIENCE HAS INTEGRITY ISSUES, IG SAYS

No Safeguards against Political Manipulation of Science despite Repeated Scandals

WORLD’S BIGGEST WHISTLEBLOWER AGENCY HAS FEWER THAN 80 STAFF

Congress Heaps on New Whistleblower Jurisdiction without Resources to Implement

OSHA TO MAKE ONLY TINY DENT IN HUGE HEALTH STANDARD BACKLOG

No Strategy or Resources to Counter the Silent Epidemic of Workplace Exposures

TIGHTER NEW JERSEY DRINKING WATER STANDARDS IN OBLIVION

Drinking Water Institute Chair Resigns in Frustration; Successor to be Announced