PEERMail: We Need More Than Oversight
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PEER | November 16, 2018
We Need More Than Oversight Don’t get me wrong. For the past two years, congressional oversight has been synonymous with congressional overlook. Scrutiny enforced by subpoena would be a welcome change. If the past two years show anything, it’s that inside the Trump-sphere of ...
Agency ‘Hemorrhaging’ Taxpayer Dollars — Watchdog
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From: Greenwire “A government watchdog is criticizing the Chemical Safety Board for lacking transparency and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in a personnel case involving a former managing director of the agency. CSB will hold a closed-door meeting tomorrow on a “legal ...
Why The EPA Won’t Get The Lead Out Of Our Water
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From: The National Memo “Public employees are pushing the EPA to rewrite its regulations which have helped enable crises like Flint, Mich., and now Newark, N.J. An estimated 15 million to 22 million people, or 5% to 7.5% of our nation’s population, drink water delivered through lead ...
Interior Credits Increased Fossil Fuel Production for Jump in Revenue from Federal Lands
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PEER | November 15, 2018
From: The Hill “At least one Conservation group regarded the report and its numbers with heavy skepticism–nothing that fiscal 2017 extends into the Obama administration. The year begins October 2016. “This report contains no evidence that ‘smart regulatory reforms and ...
Ravenwoode: Saving America’s Wild Horses from Slaughter
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PEER | November 13, 2018
From: Lake County News “Well-intentioned BLM whistleblowers have not stopped the slaughter. Even years of media investigative reporting, which has chronicled widespread abuses, have not stopped the slaughter. Countless nationwide horse protection and advocacy groups, who have mobilized ...
