The Rundown And lastly, Democratic senators criticize the EPA’s reversal on coal ash regulations. “EPA has failed to identify new evidence or changed circumstances that justify abandoning or weakening these protections just two years later.” – Letter from Senate Democrats to Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, criticizing the agency’s proposals to weak federal oversight of […]
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Brett writes about agriculture, energy, infrastructure, and the politics and economics of water in the United States. He also writes the Federal Water Tap, Circle of Blue’s weekly digest of U.S. government water news. He is the winner of two Society of Environmental Journalists reporting awards, one of the top honors in American environmental journalism: first place for explanatory reporting for a series on septic system pollution in the United States(2016) and third place for beat reporting in a small market (2014). He received the Sierra Club's Distinguished Service Award in 2018. Brett lives in Seattle, where he hikes the mountains and bakes pies. Contact Brett Walton
