RACHEL MADDOW RIPS DISGRACED OKLAHOMA BANKER WHO ‘IMMACULATELY CONCEIVED’ REPORT ON TOXICALLY POLLUTED SUPERFUND SITES

by PEER | December 28, 2017
From: Raw Story ““The EPA did not respond with any materials,” Maddow said. “PEER sued and this week, almost six months later, they did not get the documents they were looking for but they did get a response from the EPA. And it’s amazing. Associated Press reporting, ‘a lawyer ...

PRUITT DRIVES OUT EPA STAFF, HIRES BUDDY

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From: MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show “Rachel Maddow reports on the disgraced former banker Albert Kelly, Scott Pruitt’s friend who he put in charge of an EPA superfund cleanup task force as qualified, experienced EPA staff flee the agency by the hundreds.” Read more . . . Read ...

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 ...