Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Coverage of Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in the Nexus archive.
- Environmental groups sue feds over blanket permit to fast-track pipelines
Environmental groups sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a nationwide permit that fast-tracks oil and gas pipeline approvals without required environmental reviews under the Clean Water Act. The permit, used for projects like the Mountain Valley and Dakota Access pipelines, allows developers to bypass comprehensive reviews by treating large projects as multiple smaller ones.
- A watchdog report flags security risks in the IRS-ICE taxpayer data-sharing deal
A Treasury inspector general report highlights security risks in the 2025 IRS-ICE data-sharing agreement, which allowed ICE to request taxpayer information for immigration investigations. The report found inconsistent data formatting led to errors in matching records, resulting in questionable disclosures of 47,000 individuals' addresses. A federal judge previously ruled the IRS illegally shared the same data with ICE.