CIVIL SERVANTS COMPLAIN TRUMP IS SIDELINING WORKERS WITH EXPERTISE ON CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT
From: Los Angeles Times ““The work of the EPA science arm has now been disconnected from the agency’s decision-making,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “It’s like a bureaucratic Dunkirk over there. ...
PUBLIC LANDS: BLM EXPLORES ‘FLEXIBILITY’ FOR RANCHERS ON GRAZING PERMITS
From: E & E News “The proposal comes less than a year after data compiled by Interior on the nearly 155 million acres on which grazing occurs showed that at least a quarter of federal rangelands don’t meet land health standards (Greenwire, Oct. 7, 2016). Public Employees for ...
REP. THREATENED WSU FUNDING, COMPLAINT STATES
From: The Daily Evergreen “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility listed a number of ethics violation allegations over the past decade, many of which involve threats to withhold university funding, including for the new Elson. S. Floyd College of Medicine and the Plant ...
ANGRY THAT SCOTT PRUITT PULLS AGENTS OFF ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS FOR HIS SECURITY DETAIL? THEN STOP DEMONIZING HIM
From: Washington Examiner “So when the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Jeff Ruch attacks Pruitt for allowing the “evaporation of criminal enforcement,” he should really be asking why his organization has demonized the administrator to ...
SCOTT PRUITT IS USING EPA INVESTIGATORS AS HIS PERSONAL BODYGUARDS
From: Death And Taxes ““These guys signed on to work on complex environmental cases, not to be an executive protection detail,” Michael Hubbard, former head of the EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division office in Boston, told the Post. “It’s not only not what they want to do, ...