DeSantis Announces Sweeping Fixes Meant to Clean Up Florida Water Woes
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PEER | January 10, 2019
From: Miami Herald “DeSantis also ordered environmental enforcement moved from the state’s wildlife agency to the DEP. Under Scott, enforcement plummeted to its lowest in three decades last year, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Even before he was ...
Trump Administration to Restaff Key Wildlife Refuges to Continue Hunts
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From: The Hill “Jeff Ruch, president of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the FWS announcement appears to violate the terms of its own shutdown contingency plan. The 2019 plan notes that the Anti-Deficiency Act stipulates emergency funds can be provided for ...
Federal Shutdown Becoming a Polluters Holiday
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Humans and Wildlife at Risk by End of Critical Monitoring and Pollution Testing ...
Alaska Calls for Less Federal Control of Wildlife Management
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PEER | January 9, 2019
From: KTUU “Acting Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang in a 41-page memo says federal officials should stop ignoring state comments on managing wildlife on federal lands. He says the state had repeatedly sought resolutions without success on topics such endangered ...
The Shutdown Shows Just How Vital Government Scientists Are
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From: Wired “”None of the federal environmental laws are written in such a way that if the government is shut down, you can’t do anything,” says Kyla Bennett, senior attorney for the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which advocates on ...