Steven L. Danver

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Assistant Dean for Instruction at Columbia Basin College, historian of the American West and Indigenous Peoples, and editor of Journal of the West. #envhist #histodons #water
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Academic affiliationhttps://www.columbiabasin.edu/directory/sdanver.html
Publishing websitehttps://mesaverdepublishing.com
Steven L. DanverDec 14, 2022
ProPublicaDec 14, 2022

Why the U.S. Is Losing the Fight to Ban Toxic Chemicals
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The flaws of the American chemical regulatory apparatus run deeper than funding shortfalls or the decisions of the last presidential administration.

ProPublica spoke with #environmental experts around the world and delved into a half century of #legislation, #lawsuits, #EPA documents, oral histories, #chemical databases and global #regulatory records to construct a blueprint of a failed system.

https://www.propublica.org/article/toxic-chemicals-epa-regulation-failures?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Why the U.S. Is Losing the Fight to Ban Toxic Chemicals

From a powerful chemical industry that helped write the toxic substances law to an underfunded EPA lacking in resolve, the flaws in the American chemical regulatory apparatus run deep.

ProPublica
Steven L. DanverDec 9, 2022
Steven BeschlossDec 9, 2022
“You can’t lead the people unless you love the people. You can’t love the people unless you know the people. And you can’t know the people unless you walk among the people."-- Sen. Raphael Warnock https://america.substack.com/p/good-governance-matters
Good Governance Matters

What we can learn from newly reelected Sen. Raphael Warnock and other legislators who recognize that the value of government is to make lives better

America, America
Steven L. DanverNov 30, 2022
Laurie_SnyderNov 30, 2022

#BREAKING #NEWS: Sad news. Christine McVie, singer-songwriter for the legendary group Fleetwood Mac, has died: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63812952

#Music #FleetwoodMac #ChristineMcVie

Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter, dies aged 79

The singer-songwriter, behind some of the group's biggest hits, dies after an illness, her family says.

BBC News
Steven L. DanverNov 23, 2022
Adam M. SowardsNov 23, 2022

Apparently, there's a #documentary by #Fox about #Yellowstone's history, spinning off of the series' popularity and using #Costner.

This critique by writer and *actual* historian Megan Kate Nelson shows that the doc is laughably bad. But it's no laughing matter.

Check it out:
https://slate.com/culture/2022/11/is-kevin-costners-yellowstone-documentary-good-history-not-so-much.html

Kevin Costner’s Yellowstone Doc for Fox Has a Lot of Wrong Ideas About History

The federal government created this beautiful park. Guess who doesn’t want to admit it?

Slate
Steven L. DanverNov 23, 2022
Virginia HeffernanNov 23, 2022
With the former president solidly out of the White House & increasingly unlikely to make it back, I'm not convinced the media shd stay its course as a Trump-seeking missile. After 6y, our immune systems, vocabularies, social media tropes, forms like "threads"—all still trained on him. He's Moby-DIck to our Ahab. The threat he represented, esp in office, was real. But as the monopoly of Twitter lets up, Trump's monopoly on our attention, news outlets, imaginations & resources should let up too.
Steven L. DanverNov 22, 2022
Hey #histodons! Proposing a roundtable session for the 2023 Western History Assn conference on the restorative and reparative work that so many of us do in our own institutions. Historians have an essential role to play in DEI, so I propose a discussion to delve into how we involve ourselves in DEI work and how DEI work informs our pedagogy and research. Let me know if you are interested...I'll be happy to spearhead a session proposal. Proposals are due December 5, 2022.