Oversight
GovExec Daily: Despite the Supreme Court, the EPA Can Still Do Its Job
Former Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Southeast Region Heather Toney joins the podcast to discuss the high court's decision and its effects on regulatory agencies.
Oversight
GovExec Daily: The Supreme Court Is Limiting the Regulatory State
The Brennan Center's Martha Kinsella joins the podcast to discuss the high court's decision on regulatory power.
Oversight
19 U.S. Diplomatic Posts Receive Grants for Their Sustainable Ideas
A State Department program awards up to $1 million to assist U.S. embassies and consulates for their innovative solutions to environmental problems.
Oversight
Grain Elevator Project Could Destroy African American Historical Sites, Preservation Agency Says
Following ProPublica's reporting, a federal agency says that a proposed grain elevator in Louisiana could harm a historic plantation and asks why a report was changed to minimize discussion of possible damage.
Management
Joe Biden Has a New Vision for the National Flood Insurance Program
The administration's flood insurance reforms could improve transparency — and make some Americans more vulnerable.
Tech
Why Biden Just Declared Heat Pumps and Solar Panels Essential to National Defense
Other presidents used the Defense Production Act to boost fossil fuel supplies. Biden is using it to replace them with clean energy. But just ramping up production isn’t enough.
Oversight
House Approves Massive $31 Billion 'Ike Dike' Project to Protect Texas Coast from Hurricanes
The U.S. House voted to authorize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin planning for the massive coastal barrier project in Galveston Bay, but funding is not yet secured. The largest civil engineering project in U.S. history would permanently alter the Texas coast.
Management
Interior Department to Phase out Single-Use Plastics on All Public Lands
Agencies including the National Park Service will have until 2032 to eliminate them.
Management
The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.
Oversight
Wildfires Are Still Catching Us Off-Guard. Congress’ Plan to Fix that Isn’t Going Anywhere.
How the proposal to connect federal research agencies and improve wildfire research crashed and burned.
Management
GovExec Daily: Are the New Postal Vehicles Coming Soon?
Eric Katz joins the podcast to discuss the fight around the Postal Service fleet contract.
Management
House Dems to Force a Vote on Pausing USPS' Vehicle Contract
The pressure continues to ramp up on the Postal Service to purchase more electric trucks.
Management
A New Office of Environmental Justice is Announced
New Justice Dept. office will take on polluters in hard-hit communities
Defense
Twice Burned
How the U.S. military’s toxic burn pits are poisoning Americans — overseas and at home
Management
USPS Is Facing New Legal Challenges to Its Vehicle Contract and Its Authority to Increase Prices
Environmental groups and a union are suing the Postal Service over its failure to buy more electric vehicles, while mailers are fighting rate hikes.
Management
Biden Signs Earth Day Executive Order to Protect Old-growth Forests
The order contains vague language around logging, disappointing some environmentalists calling for a ban on the practice on federal lands.
Management
Cows, Coal and Climate Change: A Q&A with the New BLM Director
Tracy Stone-Manning discusses how the federal agency sees conservation, the climate crisis and the Indigenous history of public lands.
Management
Biden: Federal Agencies Must Consider Climate Impacts of Infrastructure Projects
The changes to the National Environmental Policy Act reverse Trump-era rollbacks, impacting projects from roads to railways to pipelines.
Management
Scientists Identify the Missing Ingredient for Climate Action: Political Will
The IPCC's latest report finally recognizes the social barriers to climate action.
Tech