RYAN ZINKE’S GREAT AMERICAN FIRE SALE
From: The New Yorker “In a speech to the National Petroleum Council last September, Zinke claimed that a third of the career civil servants under his command were “not loyal to the flag,” by which he meant Trump.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
AS SCIENTISTS MARCH, FEDERAL RESEARCHERS WEATHER TRUMP STORM
From: Wired “It’s more benign neglect,” Ruch says of Trump-administration leadership at various agencies. “Science isn’t being used to inform decision making. They don’t need it, they aren’t interested in it.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
AFTER BILLION-DOLLAR SUPERFUND CLEANUP, FOIA’D DOCUMENTS SHOW QUESTIONABLE DATA
From: Muckrock “In what’s been dubbed the “biggest case of eco-fraud in U.S. history,” a contractor paid over $300 million to help clean a Cold War nuclear laboratory appears to have falsified soil samples and other data.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
S.F. SUPERVISOR CALLS FOR HEARING INTO HUNTERS POINT CLEANUP
From: KQED News “San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen is calling for a hearing into problems plaguing the cleanup of radioactive material from the Hunters Point Shipyard, after a federal report found contractors falsified soil sample data from the site to a much greater degree than ...
EPA LETTER REVEALS NAVY’S DOWNPLAY OF RADIOACTIVE SOIL IN SF’S BAYVIEW
From: ABC7News “This week, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility published a letter to the Navy. In it, the EPA says they found 90 and 97 percent of the soil samples on two major land parcels suspect compared to the Navy, which only recommended resampling 15 and 49 ...
ENERGY AND OTHER PROJECT DEVELOPERS TAKE NOTE: CLEAN WATER ACT’S REACH STILL UNCERTAIN FOLLOWING MULTIPLE DEVELOPMENTS IN Q1 2018
From: Lexology “This action subjects safeguards for clean water across the U.S. to filtration through one politician’s hands,” said Kyla Bennet, a director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “Every corporation that wants a pass on Clean Water Act ...
