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An employee advocacy group is accusing the Biden administration of failing to follow through on its promise to reverse a Trump-era initiative aimed at making it easier to fire federal workers, instead using the nullified policy to dismiss a whistleblower.
Walter Loewen, a planning and environmental coordinator at the Bureau of Land Management, is facing a proposed removal after the agency said he performed inadequately. The dismissal, which is pending a final signoff from BLM management, follows Loewen raising concerns about a large and controversial oil and gas project on 1.5 million acres of federal land in Wyoming. Loewen and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the group representing him, said that timing is not a coincidence. Then-Interior Secretary David Bernhardt gave the project final approval just weeks before Presiden
Ellsworth AFB slated for first main operational base for B-21 Raider in United States
Secretary of the Air Force Public AffairsMarch 10, 2021Business
U.S. Air Force courtesy graphic by Northrop GrummanShown is an artist rendering of a B-21 Raider concept in a hangar at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Ellsworth AFB is one of the bases expected to host the new airframe.
ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE, S.D. (AFNS) The B-21 Raider program continues to progress through the engineering and manufacturing development acquisition phase. One visible example of progress was the recent construction and installation of a temporary prototype Environmental Protection Shelter at Ellsworth Air Force Base.
B-21 Prototype Environmental Protection Shelters construction, test underway at Ellsworth AFB
March 8, 2021
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Shown is an artist rendering of a B-21 Raider concept in a hangar at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Ellsworth AFB is one of the bases expected to host the new airframe. (U.S. Air Force courtesy graphic by Northrop Grumman)
Shown is an artist rendering of a B-21 Raider concept in a hangar at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Ellsworth AFB is one of the bases expected to host the new airframe. (U.S. Air Force courtesy graphic by Northrop Grumman)
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Nevada Lawsuit cites EPA, state concerns about lithium mine
SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press
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1of3Permitting Lithium Nevada Corp. s Thacker Pass Project has begun as exploration drilling continues on the site between Orovada and Kings Valley, in in Humboldt county, Nev., shown beyond a driller s shovels in the distance on Sept. 13, 2018. A new federal lawsuit is challenging the construction of a huge Nevada lithium mine approved in the final days of the Trump administration. It says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state wildlife officials repeatedly warned the plans don t comply with laws protecting water and wildlife near the Oregon line. (Suzanne Featherston/The Daily Free Press via AP)Suzanne Featherston/APShow MoreShow Less
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