RUMORED NPS PERSONNEL MOVES REMINISCENT OF PAST ATTEMPTS TO EXERT POLITICAL WILL ON AGENCY
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Susan Sargent | May 1, 2018
From: National Parks Traveler “President Trump reportedly favors chaos as a managerial tool, and proposed personnel changes at the National Park Service not only would insert that element into the agency’s upper echelon, but also be reminiscent of past efforts to gain political ...
YELLOWSTONE SUPERINTENDENT COULD BE REASSIGNED UNDER INTERIOR PROPOSAL
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Susan Sargent |
From: Yellowstone Insider “According to the Chronicle, the proposed reassignment comes as a surprise to organizations like the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. It also follows controversy over the reassignment of other Interior ...
POTENTIAL PARKS SHAKEUP WOULD MOVE YELLOWSTONE SUPERINTENDENT
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Susan Sargent |
From: Bozeman Daily Chronicle “Jeff Ruch said PEER believes acting National Park Service Director Danny Smith called the six people involved and informed them of the impending transfers. Ruch added that the employees must either accept such transfers or be removed from federal ...
PROPOSED SHAKE-UP AT NATIONAL PARK SERVICE COULD MAKE SENIOR LEADERS HIT THE ROAD
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Susan Sargent | April 30, 2018
From: The Washington Post “These multiple moves resemble a purge and have no apparent management motivation other than to marginalize and disrupt,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a frequent critic of the Interior ...
OFFICIALS CALL FOR INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED RADIOACTIVE SOIL AT PITTSBURG LANDFILL
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Susan Sargent |
From: East Bay Times “The report uses terms you don’t usually see in bureaucratic transmissions — falsification, fraudulence — very strong language,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility group, which obtained the EPA ...