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Federal Newscast

IG says 'inconsistent' Pentagon policy on active shooters could make things worse

Also in today's Federal Newscast, the Navy and the state of Hawaii join forces to clean-up the military's mess in Paradise.

Management

Does that Supreme Court decision on the EPA change the agency itself?

Defense

Defense Department sites are rife with poisons in nearby groundwater

Air Force

Meet the small team that handles the Air Force's radioactive waste

DoD Reporter's Notebook

2022 spending bill fills holes in DoD's long-underfunded facility maintenance budgets

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Congress taps brakes on DoD project to reform IT funding

Veterans Affairs

What Lies Beneath: Vets worry polluted base made them ill

FILE - In this May 11, 2015, file photo, nuclear waste is stored in underground containers at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho. The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level radioactive waste that is based on the waste's radioactivity rather than how it was produced. The U.S. Department of Energy announcement last week means some radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production stored for decades in Idaho, Washington and South Carolina could be reclassified and moved for permanent storage elsewhere. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler, File)

Facilities/Construction

Biden administration affirms Trump era interpretation for high-level nuclear waste

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, water flows through a series of sediment retention ponds built to reduce heavy metal and chemical contaminants from the Gold King Mine outside Silverton, Colo. The Gold King and other mines in the area are now part of a Superfund cleanup project. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday, June 14, 2018, it plans to take a series of interim cleanup steps at some of the sites while it searches for a longer-term solution. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Congress

Legal expert says 'bad idea' to remediate PFAS contamination using EPA's Superfund system

firefighter, PFAS

Defense

Cleaning up hazardous chemicals, unexploded munitions from military bases not likely to wrap up soon

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Of Consuming Interest

When it's no longer cool to use that old refrigerant

In this June 12, 2018, photo, U.S. Forest Service scientist Paul Schaberg stands beside a healthy red spruce tree growing on Mount Mansfield in Stowe, Vt. Schaberg is co-author of a new study that found that the tree species, once heavily damaged by acid rain, is rebounding in five Northeast states due to stricter air pollution regulations and a changing climate. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

Federal Drive

Forest Service hasn't changed its National Environmental Policy Act compliance since '90s

Andrew Wheeler

People

WATCH: EPA's new chief tries to reassure staff while sticking to administration's goals