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RETALIATION, NOT JUST HARASSMENT, A PROBLEM AT INTERIOR, GROUP SAYS

by PEER | December 22, 2017
From: FED Week “However, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility organization stressed that the survey also found that when employees complained, no action was taken in 64 percent of the cases and an official career action was taken against the persons responsible in only ...

EPA: HOUSE REPUBLICANS QUERY PRUITT ABOUT SUPERFUND LIST

by PEER | December 21, 2017
From: Greenwire “EPA’s Superfund Task Force, which helped create the list, kept no internal records of its activities, according to the agency’s response to Freedom Of Information Act litigation by watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility” Read ...

500 Manatee Deaths in 2017…and Counting

by PEER | December 20, 2017
Last Year’s Mortality Spike Already Topped Before December Cold Snaps ...

FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR OIL SPILL FUND WILL END IN 2018

by PEER |
From: Juneau Empire “On Monday, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said by email that a 9-cent per-barrel excise tax on all American crude oil will expire at the end of the year. That tax goes into the fund to pay for oil spills from a variety of sources, including ...

EPA SAYS SUPERFUND TASK FORCE LEFT BEHIND LITTLE PAPER TRAIL

by PEER |
From: The Tribune “The advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, known as PEER, quickly filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking a long list of documents related to the development of Pruitt’s plan. Now, nearly six months after the task force ...