UPDATE | National Park Service Broadens Tribal Involvement In Stewardship Of Parks
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PEER | September 14, 2022
At Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Jeff Ruch noted that the Park Service, in announcing the new policy, made “no mention” of following the National Environmental Policy Act in implementing the policy. “Are agreements that affect management of park ...
Justice Department to Announce Change in Corporate Crime Enforcement
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Earlier this year, Public Citizen’s Rick Claypool put out a report highlighting the Department’s “disappointing enforcement numbers and policy decisions” on corporate crime. A report by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility found that criminal anti-pollution ...
EPA Confirms PFAS “Forever Chemicals” Leach into Pesticides from Storage Containers
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These results led EPA to conduct more comprehensive testing, considering the length of time a pesticide product is stored, and whether the type of liquid stored in the barrel made a difference. At the time, Kyla Bennet, PhD, Policy Director at Public Employees for Environmental ...
Watchdog: Chemical Safety Agency Impeded by Staff Shortage
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PEER | September 12, 2022
“The Chemical Safety Board barely survived the Trump war of attrition against it,” said Jeff Ruch, a top official at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group of current and former public employees. The watchdog group had sharply criticized Lemos and ...
Watchdog: Chemical safety agency impeded by staff shortage
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PEER | September 9, 2022
“The Chemical Safety Board barely survived the Trump war of attrition against it,″ said Jeff Ruch, a top official at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a watchdog group of current and former public employees. The watchdog group had sharply criticized Lemos and ...
Federal survey delivers more bad news to Bering Sea crab fleet
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Scientists also are scrutinizing the practice of catching undersized crabs and then throwing them back, which could cause death. There is also research and debate about the impact, both in decades past and currently, of trawl nets towed along the bottom by vessels pursuing cod and flatfish ...