‘WHERE IS EVERYBODY?’ SENATORS ASK OF MISSING TRUMP PICKS
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PEER | March 5, 2018
From: Greenwire “Last month, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility asked Interior’s inspector general to probe the agency’s use of temporary or acting directors and whether it had violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, possibly making decisions invalid ( ...
EPA CHIEF’S CLEAN-WATER ROLLBACK SHAPED BY SECRECY, LUXURY TRAVEL AND HANDPICKED AUDIENCES
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From: LA Times “The effort is aimed at removing federal Clean Water Act protection from millions of miles of streams and wetlands, including more than 80% of the waters in California and the arid West. The administration last month suspended for two years the new guidelines protecting ...
Legal Cloud Looms over Interior Department Actions
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Legitimacy of Acting Directors of Parks, BLM, and Fish & Wildlife Remains in Doubt ...
FEDS’ DISCOUNTED GRAZING FEES HURT TAXPAYERS, ENVIRONMENT, REPORT SAYS
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PEER | March 1, 2018
From: The Daily Yonder ““While heavily subsidized grazing is not new to this administration, reducing low fees even further is a step in the wrong direction,” said Kirsten Stade, advocacy director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). “Keeping grazing ...
Brian McKenna: Michigan Environmental Anthropologist
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PEER | February 28, 2018
An anthropologist in the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Department of Behavioral Sciences, Brian works as an environmental scholar. Three years before joining academia, Brian was hired by the Ingham County Health Department to conduct an analysis of environmental issues within ...