EXXON VALDEZ DAMAGES SUIT DRAGS INTO 2015 AND PERHAPS BEYOND
Judge Frustrated That Long Overdue Restoration Plan Still Not Near Completion
Department of Interior
News Releases
MOUNTAINS OF NATIVE AMERICAN REMAINS MISLAID AND MISLABELED
Federal Office Stopped Cataloguing Discoveries, Tracking Loans or Notifying Tribes
MOVE TO END FEDERAL FUNDING OF ALASKA PREDATOR CONTROL
State Should Repay Noncompliant Grants and Be Barred from Future Grants
VINDICATED ARCTIC SCIENTIST RETIRES WITH CASH SETTLEMENT
$100,000 Payment and Belated Secretary’s Award Resolves Whistleblower Complaint
RECLAMATION LIFTS REMOVAL THREAT AGAINST KLAMATH BIOLOGISTS
Rare Apology Coupled with Promise of More Collaborative & Transparent Posture
CADILLAC CONTRACTS CANNIBALIZE AGENCY SCIENCE BUDGET
Review Asked for Overhead of Up to 50% in Open-Ended Reclamation Contracts
INTERIOR DENIES SPINNING KLAMATH SCIENCE
Complaint Deemed Factual but Inaccuracies Excused as “Normal Practice”
DROWNED POLAR BEAR PAPER VINDICATED – AGAIN
Interior Rejects IG Call for Further Scientific Reviews yet Case Remains Open
IG REPEATEDLY TRIED TO CRIMINALLY PROSECUTE ARCTIC SCIENTIST
After Charges Discredited, Drowned Polar Bear Case Reopened Without Explanation
CALL TO OPEN UP EMERGENCY SHELL ARCTIC REVIEW
Federal Agencies Need to Consult Outside Experts and Residents Not Just Industry
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Tortoise on the Half-Shell — Environmental Malpractice at Mojave National Preserve (November 1999) Details an inside account about how a federal agency legally dedicated to conservation has abdicated its responsibilities to the direct detriment of the natural resources and wildlife in its care. As a consequence of political presure and bureaucratic inertia, legal mandates have been flaunted, critical scientific data ignored and park managers have taken the posture that grazing at Mojave NP is, and will likely remain, unmonitored, unregulated and untouchable. more >> |
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War of Attrition — Sabotage of the Endangered Series Act by the U.S. Department of Interior (December 1997) The U.S. Department of the Interior consistently ignores its own scientists' recommendations to list species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). To stall discussion and shift the burden, the Department of the Interior is waiting for Congressional approval for a reauthorization bill that would greatly weaken the act. more >> |
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2005 Interior Biologists Told To Fundraise |
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Protest of Nomination of Craig Manson, for Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks |