Prosecution of Criminal Polluters Continues to Fall Under Trump

by PEER | November 27, 2019
“REGIONAL— Criminal environmental enforcement continues to fall under the Trump Administration, according to the latest figures released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER. Prosecution of pollution crimes in fiscal year 2019 fell to levels not seen ...

Transferring Rangers to the Border Threatens Our National Parks

by PEER | November 26, 2019
“In the latest outrage, as USA Today reported Monday, the Trump administration has ordered rangers from national parks around the country to go fight illegal immigration and drug traffickers at the U.S.-Mexico border. That is not what rangers are trained or paid to do. They rescue ...

Trump: Park rangers will patrol Mexican border, arrest migrants

by PEER | November 25, 2019
“There are now fewer than 1,800 law enforcement rangers watching out for nearly 320 million visitors at the nation’s 419 national park sites. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a government watchdog group, released figures Nov. 5 showing that the number of full- ...

Y’Stone Wifi Signals to Fly

by PEER |
“Yellowstone National Park officials are taking steps to bolster Wi-Fi in the park’s interior, where today signals are poor enough that employees can go to great lengths to pull off even the most mundane of tasks. A proposal on the table would result in a sweeping upgrade to Wi-Fi ...

Federal Pollution Prosecutions Continue to Fall

by PEER | November 21, 2019
EPA Criminal Enforcement Program Continues to Shrivel under Trump ...
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