Democrats Want Answers About the Interior Department’s Decisions During the Shutdown

by PEER | January 28, 2019
From: Think Progress “The use of entrance fees to keep national parks open, along with a sudden decision to bring back department employees to work on offshore drilling and related tasks, have come under fire from House Democrats and environmental groups — they argue Acting Interior ...

Trump’s EPA Has a Light Touch When it Comes to Punishing Polluters

by PEER |
From: Salon “Over the last two decades, according to the report, EPA civil penalties averaged more than $500 million a year (an average adjusted for inflation). The last fiscal year was nearly 85 percent below that, at $72 million. Barack Obama’s former EPA assistant administrator ...

Florida Panthers Pad Toward Extinction

by PEER |
2018 Another High Lethality Year as Deaths Increasingly Outpace Declining Births ...

Is EPA Truly Transparent Now That Pruitt Is Gone?

by PEER |
Lawsuit Induced Wheeler to Make a New Records Policy and Transparency Vow ...

Formaldehyde Controversy Raises Concerns For Retailers Over EPA’s Future Review And Regulation Of Chemicals And Associated Litigation Risk

by PEER | January 25, 2019
From: Mondaq “Industry groups have met with EPA and have publicly expressed concerns that the updated risk assessment will be merely a “restructuring” of the original draft and will still suffer from the same scientific and methodological defects previously identified by the ...
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