Employee Group Concerned About Cuts to Park Service Training
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                                        PEER                                     | March 8, 2019
								
								From: Federal News Network “How often have you heard the complaint that the first thing cut when budgets aren’t right is training? At the National Park Service, that seems to be the case, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The group called the agency ...
								
							Journalist Claims State Dept Rescinded Award Because She Criticized Trump
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								From: ABC News “Flor De Maria Vega Zapata was awarded for leading a team of environmental enforcement prosecutors in Peru that protects natural resources, biodiversity, and public health. But under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal enforcement ...
								
							Pruitt Never Consulted EPA Ethics Office About His Legal Defense Fund
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                                        PEER                                     | March 7, 2019
								
								From: Yahoo Finance “Facing more than a dozen investigations into his conduct last spring, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that he was starting a legal defense fund, raising concerns about the propriety of a government official raising money to fend  ...
								
							Toxic Chemicals Threaten Water Supply in Seven Municipalities
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                                        PEER                                     | March 6, 2019
								
								From: Boston Globe “These off-the-charts PFAS levels represent a direct and immediate threat to the public health of the Commonwealth,” said Kyla Bennett, a former scientist at the EPA who now serves as director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in New England, an  ...
								
							Toxic algae, polluted waters: Has Florida finally had enough? | Commentary
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                                        PEER                                     | March 5, 2019
								
								“This is why several communities in southwest Florida — including Venice, Sarasota and North Port — passed resolutions asking DeSantis to adopt measures specifically like the one Good and Livingston drafted. They are sick of everyone else’s crap (sometimes literally) fouling their  ...
								
							How Trump’s EPA is Letting Environmental Criminals Off the Hook, in One Chart
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								From: Vox “A January report from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an advocacy group for public sector workers who deal with environmental issues, shows that the number of criminal cases the EPA referred to the Justice Department under President Trump is at the  ...