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Environmental Group Protests Zinke’s Staff Cuts at Wildlife Center

by PEER | June 14, 2018
From: UPI.com “One of Montana’s major tourist attractions is operating with so few staff, its visitor center is forced to close two days a week throughout the summer,” a news release announcing the letter said. “These Tuesday and Wednesday closures that also deny ...

Judging Climate Claims: Prove It, Pruitt

by PEER | June 13, 2018
From: Legal Reader “PEER’s broad FOIA filing requested “EPA documents that support the conclusion that human activity is not the largest factor driving global climate change.” The EPA, an agency once tasked with protecting the environment, fought back, refusing to comply with ...

Around the Hubs: Biocides

by PEER |
From: Chemical Watch “Two US NGOs, Beyond Pesticides and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), have strongly criticised the US EPA’s new proposal on science transparency for exempting registration data on biocides and pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, ...

Environmental Group Protests Zinke’s Staff Cuts at Wildlife Center

by PEER |
From: Gephardt Daily “The National Bison Range — the 10th most visited refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge System with more than 200,000 visitors a year — has a third less staff than it had 15 years ago, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said in the letter.&# ...

Declaring a Public Health Crisis at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco ,  a Federal Superfund Site

by PEER |
From: San Francisco Bay View “As a former physician specialist for the San Francisco Department of Public Health and founding chair of the Radiological Subcommittee of the Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board, I hereby declare the Hunters Point Shipyard to be a public ...

Environmental Group Calls Bison Refuge Closures A ‘Vendetta’

by PEER |
From: Boise State Public Radio “”The Fish and Wildlife regional office is waging the equivalent of bureaucratic war against the National Bison Range,” says Ruch. PEER claims that war involves cutting budget and staff. Ruch says the refuge can see more than 200,000 ...