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Chemicals: Biden's 'End Cancer' Pledge Begs For Environmental Oversight [1]

"President Biden pledged last week to 'end cancer as we know it,' a bold promise focused on boosting funding to the National Institutes of Health for a special Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health. ... But public health experts who have spent their careers examining environmental causes of cancer say it may not be possible to truly stop cancer without EPA stepping in."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Science [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: E&E News [9], 05/05/2021

"Interior Department Appoints First Native American Chief Of Staff" [10]

"The Interior Department announced Friday that Lawrence Roberts will serve as its first ever Indigenous chief of staff."

Diversity [11]
Government [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Hill [12], 05/03/2021

"Water Wonk With Hill, Interior Chops To Lead Army Corps" [13]

"President Biden's pick this week to oversee the Army's vast natural resources operation would bring to the job decades of water experience at the Interior Department and on Capitol Hill.

The president tapped Michael Connor to be the Department of Defense's assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, which oversees the Army Corps of Engineers and its huge network of dams and other projects.

Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Military [14]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: E&E News [16], 05/03/2021

"Biden’s Pick For No. 2 At Interior Has Numerous Ties To Fossil Fuels" [17]

"President Joe Biden’s nominee for the second-highest position at the Department of the Interior has a list of potential conflicts of interest that rivals that of Trump administration Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, whose ties to industry and his revolving-door experience earned him labels like the “ultimate D.C. swamp creature.”

Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: HuffPost [20], 04/30/2021

"Senate Confirms Janet McCabe As Deputy EPA Chief" [21]

"The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Janet McCabe as the No. 2 official at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."

Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Hill [22], 04/28/2021

EPA Scientific Integrity Policy — Good Journalism and Good Science Need Lots of Light [23]

“Science is back at EPA,” declared the agency’s new administrator. But for reporters to do their job means more, argues the latest WatchDog — it means ditching a long-standing policy that requires EPA scientists have permission, along with press office “minders,” for interviews. Why that holds back quality journalism and government responsibility to protect public health. Plus, how past agency appointees have overruled science.

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"The Fight to Clean Up the EPA" [27]

"The Environmental Protection Agency recently acknowledged what was plain to most outside observers throughout the Trump era. “Over the past few years, I am aware that political interference sometimes compromised the integrity of our science,” Michal Freedhoff, acting assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, wrote it in a March 10 internal memo."

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [28]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Science [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Intercept [29], 04/27/2021

"Former Ojibwe Chairman Tapped For Interior's Indian Affairs" [30]

"President Joe Biden nominated former tribal chairman Bryan Newland for assistant secretary for Indian Affairs of the Interior Thursday."

Environmental Justice [31]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Indian Country Today [32], 04/26/2021

"Tracy Stone-Manning Tapped to Lead Bureau of Land Management" [33]

"The White House on Thursday nominated Tracy Stone-Manning as the Bureau of Land Management director, potentially putting an environmentalist in charge of America’s largest land-owning agency."

Energy & Fuel [18]
Environmental Politics [4]
Government [5]
Natural Resources [34]
Water & Oceans [15]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: Bloomberg Environment [35], 04/23/2021
June 4, 2023 to June 6, 2023

Science Writers and Communicators of Canada 2023 Conference [36]

The SWCC will gather in Ottawa June 4-6 for their 2023 Conference to explore the big topics including, but not limited to, climate change, health, reconciliation, and trust in science.

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