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TRUMP’S LATEST EPA NOMINEE LET CANCER-CAUSING CHEMICAL POLLUTE GROUNDWATER

by Susan Sargent | March 26, 2018
From: Huffington Post “A 1998 survey by the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility found staffers at the Department of Environmental Quality deeply dissatisfied and demoralized. Fifty-nine percent strongly disagreed when asked if they trusted top management at ...

GROUP: PUBLIC IN DARK ABOUT CELL TOWER PLANS IN GRAND TETON

From: US News & World Report “ Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility says it obtained a document through the Freedom of Information Act detailing the plan at the foot of the Teton Range. The group’s executive director, Jeff Ruch, said Friday there’s been a ...

WITHHELD TETON PARK RECORDS EARN LAWSUIT

From: Jackson Hole News and Guide “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, is alleging a violation of the Freedom of Information Act relating to a June request for a trove of documents and correspondence with wireless companies.” Read more . . . Read the PEER ...

INTERNAL WATCHDOG TO OPEN PROBE INTO NATIONAL PARK SERVICE LEADER FOR ALLEGEDLY MAKING CRUDE GESTURE

From: Washington Post “The March 8 letter was addressed to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, whose office forwarded it to the inspector general, DiPaolo said. The Washington Post obtained the letter from the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which also ...

VACANCIES IN FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION LEAD TO COMPLAINT WITH INTERIOR DEPARTMENT

by Susan Sargent | March 21, 2018
From: KJZZ “In response, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, has filed a complaint with the Interior Department’s inspector general (IG) that the interim acting directors of the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and Fish and Wildlife ...

AT HOT SPRINGS, BUY A BEER, FIX A PARK

by Susan Sargent | March 19, 2018
From: Greenwire “Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said relying on leases for more revenue puts the Park Service on “sort of a slippery slope.” “These kind of business arrangements are not their forte — otherwise, they ...
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