Public Lands Critic to Oversee Fish, Wildlife and Parks
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PEER | June 12, 2019
From: Environment News Service “Putting Karen Budd-Falen in this position is like putting Genghis Khan in charge of a day care center,” said PEER Senior Counsel Peter Jenkins, pointing out that she was previously slotted into an Interior deputy solicitor job that required no Senate ...
Trump’s Insidious War on Climate and Science
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PEER | June 3, 2019
From: Times Free Press “George Luber is a national award winner for his work on climate change and health questions. He also is an internationally recognized epidemiologist, and until last year he headed the climate and health program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Whistleblower: BLM Ignores IIlegal Grazing After Bundy Fiasco
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From: E&E News “Hoover alleges that BLM’s decision to fire him was “improper retaliation” for an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint he filed last year and for “disclosing illegal grazing and other activities by one of its permittees, who was ...
Interior Department border deployments are mired in secrecy
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PEER | May 31, 2019
From: High Country News “On May 15, it was reported by The Hill that 47 Interior Department officers were currently assigned to the border — more than twice the previous number. This leaves public-lands advocates worried about the effects of their absence on the lands these ...
No Word From Feds on Tampa Sewage Spat
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PEER | May 28, 2019
From: Tampa Bay Times “Jerry Phillips, the attorney who prepared the complaint for the environmental group, said the group hasn’t given up, but it hasn’t heard a peep from the federal government. That’s not unusual since President Donald Trump took office, Phillips said. ...
A Steal of a Deal: How Ranchers Take Advantage of Public Lands
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PEER | May 23, 2019
From: The Revelator “BLM’s own records reveal that much of the sagebrush West is in severely degraded condition due to excessive commercial livestock grazing,” Kirsten Stade, advocacy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in a press release when the ...
