The news doesn’t seem to be getting better for Consumer Products Safety Commission acting head Nancy Nord, or for others in this troubled agency.  The Washington Post reports that using what the agency called "gift travel," CPSC employees travelled around the world and to a golf resort in the U.S. — all on the nickel of the manufacturers of toys and other products that CPSC is supposed to regulate. (more…)

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is at the center of a rapidly deteriorating picture in the Florida Everglades, where a $8 billion federal program  aimed at renewing this unique natural resource has stalled. (more…)