INTERIOR

Toothless law lets White House keep jobs vacant

Published: Thursday, May 9, 2019

More than halfway through President Trump's first term, the Interior Department remains rife with key personnel openings despite a federal law that suggests the agency should be hobbled by the lack of leadership. The reason: The vacancies law is little more than a paper tiger, observers say.

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SCIENCE

EPA cuts off funding for kids' health research centers

The Trump administration is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, imperiling several long-running studies of pollutants' effects on child development.

By Corbin Hiar and Ariel Wittenberg in Greenwire Monday, May 20, 2019

PUBLIC LANDS

Feds call novel climate lawsuit 'fatally flawed'

Government lawyers last week harpooned the "high-minded rhetoric" of environmentalists' claims for the "right to wilderness" in an unconventional climate case.

By Jennifer Hijazi in Climatewire Monday, May 20, 2019

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