EPA Buyouts: A Breakdown By Office
"The pending buyouts for U.S. EPA employees could mean an exodus from the agency's scientific research shop."
Source: ClimateWire, 07/18/2017
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"EPA: Pruitt's Political Deputies Accumulate Power"
"While U.S. EPA waits on a legion of nominees to emerge from the Trump White House, Administrator Scott Pruitt has sought to fill the void by spreading political deputies across his agency."
Source: Greenwire, 07/17/2017
U.S. Flood Insurance Program Is Sinking. Rescuing It Won’t Be Easy.
"PEQUANNOCK, N.J. — Time after time, as the river has risen and the water has crept up Roosevelt Street, Leni-anne Shuchter has fled the white clapboard home she bought more than four decades ago."
Source: Washington Post, 07/17/2017
Maintenance Backlog a Pothole on Road to Parks Consensus
The maintenance backlog at the National Park System is nearly $12 billion, and a hot button issue for various constituencies. But don't look for spending to clear it up any time soon, with major budget cuts proposed. This week's TipSheet outlines the issues, and provides resources and perspectives to cover the story.
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"Towns Sell Their Public Water Systems — And Come To Regret It"
"LAKE STATION, Ind. — This hard-luck town just south of Chicago is weighing a decision confronting many small and midsize cities with shrinking populations and chronic budget deficits: whether to sell the public water system to a for-profit corporation."
Source: Washington Post, 07/10/2017
Opening Pruitt’s Calendar and Saving EPA Climate Info; plus, DAPL FOIA Denied and Hoopla over Senate Hallway Interviews
Unlike his predecessors, new EPA head Scott Pruitt isn't publishing his calendar. Pushback from enviros, plus, EPA's scrubbed climate info starts reappearing on city websites around the country. That and news on a Dakota Access Pipeline FOIA and on reporters fighting for Capitol Hill access in this month's WatchDog.
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Interior Appropriations — Dead on Arrival and Live at Five
Even though big proposed budget cuts may be DOA for the Interior Department, it doesn't mean there aren't a wide range of land and resource-related stories emerging from the debates. The latest TipSheet sets the scene and offers a half-dozen ways to localize the Interior Department funding story.
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"EPA Plans To Buy Out More Than 1,200 Employees This Summer"
"The Environmental Protection Agency plans on shedding more than 1,200 employees by early September through buyouts and early retirements, as part of a broader push by the Trump administration to shrink a government entity the president once promised to eliminate 'in almost every form.'"
Source: Washington Post, 06/21/2017
"Energy Department Closes Office Working on Climate Change Abroad"
"The Energy Department is closing an office that works with other countries to develop clean energy technology, another sign of the Trump administration’s retreat on climate-related activities after its withdrawal from the Paris agreement this month."
Source: NY Times, 06/19/2017
"5 Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in Flint Water Crisis"
"FLINT, Mich. — By the time Robert Skidmore, an 85-year-old former auto industry worker, died in late 2015, officials had seen signs for months that Flint was wrestling with outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease, prosecutors say. Yet despite a wave of such cases in 2014 and 2015, no public warning was issued until early 2016."
Source: NY Times, 06/15/2017
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