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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

NEW FLORIDA ENVIRONMENT CHIEF HAS POOR ENFORCEMENT RECORD

Latest Numbers Show Fewer New Cases but More Fines than Historic Lows in 2005

EPA RELAXES AIR POLLUTION RULES FOR OIL INDUSTRY

Agency Rejects Petition for Controls on North Slope and Extends Ruling Nationally

WHEN IT RAINS…IT FLOODS

New Jersey Continues to Lose War on Sprawl New Figures Show

NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES SEVERELY SHORTCHANGED

Acre-for-Acre, Refuges Get 17 Cents for Every Dollar Spent on National Parks

MANATEE PROTECTIONS TO BE CUT UNDER BUSH PLAN

Down-Listing Comes Despite Record Number of Manatee Fatalities in 2006