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HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE EPA’S SCOTT PRUITT ARE MAKING AMERICA’S ENVIRONMENT DEADLY AGAIN

by PEER | September 6, 2017
From: LA Times “Pruitt also has targeted more than 30 rules and regulations for rescission or rollback, and, according to the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility advocacy group, has significantly reduced enforcement of the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act — which ...

EPA PUTS TRUMP POLITICAL AIDE IN CHARGE OF GRANT FUNDING DECISIONS

by PEER | September 5, 2017
From: The Hill “A former Trump campaign aide has been charged with decisions on grant funding at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The Washington Post reported.” ...

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S EFFECT ON NATIONAL PARKS

by PEER |
From: Scientific American “Agency officials were told they could not repeat their concerns to Congress, according to Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, who obtained the memo and provided a copy to McClatchy.” Read more . . . Read ...

CRIMINAL POLLUTION CASES ARE DWINDLING AT THE EPA

by PEER |
From: Truthout Buzzflash “To make matters worse, PEER just announced that Sally Bodine — a protégé of both Pruitt and Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe (a notorious climate change denier) — will temporarily join the agency in a senior position even though she has not been ...

PRUITT DELAYED EMERGENCY RULES FOR CHEMICAL PLANTS WEEKS BEFORE TOXIC FIRES ERUPTED IN HOUSTON

by PEER |
From: Truthout “Jeff Ruch, director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, points out that President Trump revoked a Federal Flood Risk Management Standard put in place by President Obama just two weeks before Hurricane Harvey battered the Texas coast. “If Trump had ...