DENALI WOLF BUFFER BILL LIKELY TO STALL IN SENATE
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Susan Sargent | April 4, 2018
From: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner “Despite getting one committee hearing last month, a bill that would ban wolf hunting on a section of state land near Denali National Park remains unlikely to advance in the Senate, according to the bill’s sponsor.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
BODINE SAYS INFORMAL ENFORCEMENT MAY CUT CASES BUT SPEED COMPLIANCE
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Susan Sargent | April 3, 2018
From: Inside EPA “EPA enforcement chief Susan Bodine says the agency plans to launch pilot projects using “informal” enforcement actions that notify a facility of a violation and aim to achieve immediate compliance without waiting for formal litigation steps, saying that while it may ...
FWC RESCUES MANATEE HIT BY BOAT NEAR SANFORD MARINA
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Susan Sargent |
From: WFTV9 ABC “The injury comes as watchdog groups say Florida is on pace for another record year for manatee deaths in 2018. A total 166 manatees have died statewide through March 2. Cold spells are to blame for 51 deaths. The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...
IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES MARK EVALUATIONS OF EPA’S PERFORMANCE
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Susan Sargent | April 2, 2018
From: Government Executive “The advocacy group PEER, using numbers from EPA’s results and analysis and trends website, concluded that the number of administrative enforcement cases initiated by EPA fell by more than one-third in 2017 from just five years earlier, and are on a course in ...
SHULKIN SAYS HE WAS FIRED. THE WHITE HOUSE SAID HE RESIGNED. HERE’S WHY IT MATTERS.
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Susan Sargent |
From: CNN “An environmental watchdog group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, is taking that approach with a handful of Interior Department nominees who it says have been in their temporary roles longer than the law allows.” ” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
TRUMP’S NOMINEE TO OVERSEE SUPERFUND PROGRAM SPENT DECADES FIGHTING EPA CLEANUPS ON BEHALF OF POLLUTERS
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Susan Sargent | March 29, 2018
From: The Intercept “Environmental enforcement cases have already dropped sharply in the past year. According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, “The 2017 case referrals to the Department of Justice for prosecution are below annual levels going back to 1990. The pace ...
