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Green Group Hits Administration Over Staff Cuts that Hamper Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center

by PEER | June 12, 2018
From: The Hill “In a letter sent Monday to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) argued that recent steps taken by the overseeing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office to diminish staff at the park to 4.5 on-site staff hurt the ...

NO WHISTLEBLOWER RELIEF IN BROKEN CIVIL SERVICE COURT

by PEER |
Without a Quorum, MSPB Paralyzed as Cases in Backlog Limbo Now Exceed 1,100 ...

I Declare The Hunters Point Shipyard To Be A Public Health Emergency

by PEER | June 11, 2018
From: Indy Bay “The parcels in question border former Parcel A where families are now housed according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility executive director Jeff Ruch. Ruch obtained the EPA review under the Freedom of Information Act and states, “Documents ...

Week 72: Trump’s “Soviet-Style” Plan to Save Coal

by PEER |
From: NRDC: On Earth “The order comes as part of a Freedom of Information Act dispute between Pruitt’s EPA and the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER. The group has demanded that the EPA produce data in support of Pruitt’s claim, while the agency ...

The Great Chinese Climate Hoax Might Be Working Overtime This Hurricane Season

by PEER |
From: Esquire “That storms are becoming stronger, wetter, and slower is pushing us toward something resembling a bimonthly catastrophe every year at this time. Luckily, we have Scott (Free Lunch) Pruitt on the job, as a federal judge made clear on Wednesday.” Read more . . . ...

State Scientist Tapped for EPA Panel with Backing of Texas GOP Donor

by PEER |
From: The Austin-American Statesman “The science board “should protect human health and the environment, but they are getting rid of real scientists and stacking it with ones their donors want in there,” Kyla Bennett, a former EPA employee who now works for the watchdog group ...