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Inside EPA reporting 10th Circuit Court of Appeals has joined 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in upholding the constitutionality of the Congressional Review Act. Act allows Congress to avoid the effect of the Senate's filibuster tradition in repealing Executive Branch rules.

EPA techniques procedures to apply CERCLA Superfund statute differently to folks who are not responsible for causing PFAS releases even though liable under statute for such releases once those PFAS are hazardous substances. One of the first milestones on EPA's PFAS road map.

With all the attention on PFAS over the past few years, you might assume that your standard Environmental Site Assessment would assess the possibility that the property you're buying has been impacted by PFAS

Place june 26th. alaska governor dunleavy met with president trump for more than a half-hour. dunleavy has been moving for approval of a massive gold and copper mine, plans for the bristol bay watershed, home to breeding grounds for salmon fisheries. and after his meeting aboard air force one, dunleavy said this about the president. >> he believes in the opportunities in alaska. >> inside epa, the very next day, june 27th. top epa officials in washington held an internal video conference with se...

Watershed. >> theres no doubt this was a decision by those trump appointees, not scientists, correct? >> yes. the general counsel for epa made this decision. at first the epa denied that this meeting the day after the governors meeting took place even happened. not true. when we confronted the epa with our own evidence, they admitted this meeting did take place. its in this meeting, one day after trump met with alaskas governor that those scientists were told the decision was made. as one epa of...

That internal announcement was a total shock to scientists because their concerns were overruled by appointees. trump political appointees. its regarded as one of the most important salmon fisheries. half of the worlds salmon come from here. its been protected since 2014 when after three years of study, the obama era epa used a rare provision to veto any mining that could pose a threat. the epa scientists writing a mine would result in complete loss of fish habitat that was irreversible. >> its ...

Things for the administration >> on the environmental side, this disregard of science, theyre gutting science cross the agencies, cross the departments, cross the government. >> even if scientists are advising you, mr. president, this is very dangerous to the environment, to the fisheries, to the state of alaska, if the president decides thats the decision. >> thats the decision. >> reporter: and the only recourse is for environmental groups to sue. >> youll have a host of lawsuits. im convinced...

Bristol bay watershed, come to breeding grounds for salmon fisheries. and after his meeting aboard air force one, dunleavy said this about the president. >> he believes in the opportunities in alaska. >> inside epa, the very next day, june 27th. top epa officials in washington held an internal video conference with settle and told the staff the epa was removing a special protection for bristol bay and clearing the way for one of the largest open-pit mines in the world. that internal announcement...

Fisheries. after his meeting dunleavy said this about the president. >> he believes in the opportunities in alaska and hell do everything he can to work with us on our mining concerns. >> reporter: inside epa sources tell us the very next day, june 27th, top epa executives told the staff the epa was removing a special protection for bristol bay and in essence clearing the way for what could be one of the largest open pit mines in the world. that internal announcement was a total shock to top epa...

And epa says theyre cooperating with this investigation led by trey gowdy of the house oversight committee. they have a host problems here. theres more than a dozen different investigations into the administrators conduct and various -- and hes fast running out of friends here. >> stay with me. 14 ongoing investigations. i mean, you spend your days on the hill. have you heard from any gop leaders on sort of their take on scott pruitts position? because on one hand you could say i like the policy...