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Ralph Nader: Ralph’s Year End Charitable Giving Favorites

by PEER | December 28, 2018
From: The Litchfield County Times “A group of U.S. Forest Service professionals started this remarkable group, which has since spread to civil servants in other federal agencies such as the EPA and the Department of the Interior. PEER’s staff is knowledgeable, organized and relentless ...

New Regional Forester Says Agency is Responding to Timber Sale Concerns

by PEER |
From: KFSK “In early November Petersburg’s borough assembly voted to send a letter to the chief of the U.S. Forest Service asking for information on Tongass National Forest timber sales. The letter cites a 2016 review by staff in the Forest Service’s Washington office that detailed ...

Climate Team, and Its Boss, Just Got Harder to Find at Top Health Agency

by PEER | December 21, 2018
From: The New York Times “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly folded its Climate and Health Program into a branch that studies asthma and expunged the word climate from the name of the newly consolidated office, the agency confirmed on Thursday. An agency ...

Trump Moves to Gut the Clean Water Act

by PEER | December 14, 2018
From: The Nation “Now that the Trump administration’s performance at the COP 24 meeting in Poland has thoroughly trampled over climate-change protections, Trump is moving on from promoting air pollution to embark on a crusade to unleash pollution in the nation’s waters. With a ...

Selling Shipyard Safety

by PEER | December 13, 2018
From: San Francisco Chronicle “Beyond the home area, the situation is even more fluid. The Navy has laid out its plan to retest the shipyard, but the EPA and other agencies have said the Navy is trying to cut corners. Regulators probably will be wrestling over the details into next year ...

EW: New EPA Rule Would Sabotage Clean Water Act

by PEER | December 11, 2018
From: Eco Watch “In a move environmentalists are warning will seriously endanger drinking water and wildlife nationwide, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly gearing up to hand yet another gift to big polluters by drastically curtailing ...