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Is Trump Using the Shutdown to Serve Energy and Hunting Special Interests?

From: TruthOut

“Several moves by the Interior Department to bring back furloughed staff to attend to oil and gas activities aren’t sitting well with some elected officials. Arizona’s…

Is the Trump Administration ‘Gaming the Shutdown’ to Serve Energy and Hunting Special Interests?

From: The Revelator

“Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit that advocates for public employees who work on environmental issues,…

Gaming the System

From: The Washington Post

“Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental advocacy group, is calling on the Government Accountability Office to probe whether the…

Government Shutdown Becomes a ‘Polluters Holiday’

From: Environment News Service

“Federal biological, pollution, and food safety monitoring has been suspended as hundreds of thousands of federal workers are furloughed and forbidden…

EPA should be making more criminal referrals for polluters

From: Kentucky Kernel

“The story reported that EPA referrals resulted in 62 federal convictions in the year 2018, making it the fewest convictions since 1995. Under Bill Clinton’s presidency…


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