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

by PEER | January 28, 2019
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 ...

Is Trump Using the Shutdown to Serve Energy and Hunting Special Interests?

by PEER |
From: TruthOut “Several moves by the Interior Department to bring back furloughed staff to attend to oil and gas activities aren’t sitting well with some elected officials. Arizona’s Rep. Raúl Grijalva, chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, wrote a letter to David ...