News Clips

From: Greenwire “The groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, say EPA has violated the Federal Records Act.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: The Hill “”Under Scott Pruitt, the EPA has assumed a bunker mentality where paper trails are religiously avoided unless penned in invisible ink,” PEER counsel Adam Carlesco said in a statement. “By law, the American public has a right to know the basis for public health ...

From: CNBC “These actions prevent Americans from obtaining records of EPA processes and decision-making through the Freedom of Information Act, according to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.” Read more . . . ...

From: High Country News “Apparently, the public will never learn about the reasoning, scientific or otherwise, that formed Pruitt’s opinion, because the Justice Department — representing the EPA — considers PEER’s Freedom of Information Act request “a trap” that would mean ...

From: National Parks Traveler “In essence, said Michael Nixon, PEER’s strategic programs director, while the 1998 Reform Act did provide for some agency exceptions that allowed appointments to be made, the Interior Department was not among them, and so Secertary Zinke can’t now ...

From: Government Executive “The current top officers at the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management are working “in blatant violation of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act,” said the complaint filed on Monday by the Silver Spring, Md.- ...