USDA Continues Controversial Call-Backs of Furloughed Employees
From: GovExec “In a sign that resistance to such early call-backs continues, the nonprofit advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility on Tuesday sent a complaint to Congress’s Government Accountability Office asking it to investigate the Interior Department’s ...
Group asks watchdog to investigate recall of furloughed Interior workers
From: The Hill “An environmental advocacy group formally asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Tuesday to investigate whether the Interior Department’s recall of furloughed employees during the government shutdown is legal. Representatives for Public Employees for ...
Environmental group demands GAO investigation of Interior permit work
From: PoliticoPro “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, in a letter to GAO, requested the agency investigate whether acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt violated the Antideficiency Act, which stipulates that departments can’t spend money not allocated by ...
Meet 3 women who stood up to Trump to protect the American people — and lost their jobs
From: The Hill “Southerland resigned from EPA in early August 2017 and explained her decision in a farewell letter published by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a non-profit group for federal resource professionals. ” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
Editorial: Who’s Watching Out for Future Generations?
From: The Daily Nonpareil ““You don’t get closer to the core of EPA’s mission than enforcing the law,” Jeff Ruch, executive director of the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility advocacy groups, told The AP. “We’re reaching levels where the enforcement ...
How Long Can We Go without Prosecuting Polluters?
From: Sierra Club “According to numbers released on Tuesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that tracks environmental accountability in the public sector, the EPA has drastically reduced the number of referrals for criminal prosecution. Such ...
