Park service ranger ranks decline, even as crime rises
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PEER | July 25, 2022
The advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Policy found that the number of permanent law enforcement officers has dropped 15 percent since 2005. Seasonal officers are down 30 percent in the same time period. Colleen Teubner, staff attorney for the organization, said the long- ...
EPA official demoted under Trump appeals lawsuit
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“Dr. Etzel made important disclosures about EPA’s failure to address children’s lead poisoning, and in retaliation was removed from her position as EPA’s Director of the Office of Children’s Health Protection,” her attorney, Paula Dinerstein of Public Employees for ...
Interior Has Bad Case of Climate “Cow Blindness”
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Failure to Address Commercial Livestock Climate Impacts Invites Lawsuits ...
Experts to Congress: Restore EPA enforcement staffing and funding for environmental justice
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PEER | July 22, 2022
“The administration is trying to reorient its focus, but it needs the tools to do that,” said Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a former senior attorney for EPA’s enforcement division. “It needs the enforcement officers, ...
Letter to Sec. Haaland – Climate Impacts of Livestock Grazing
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Letter to Secretary Deb Haaland and the Climate Task Force regarding Interior’s failure to address climate Impacts of its commercial livestock program ...
