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CAPE COD COYOTE HUNT SPURS DEBATE

by | February 2, 2018
From: Providence Journal “In December, a Maryland-based nonprofit group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service challenging the validity of a 1975 study used by the agency ...

NUMBER OF CRIMINAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROSECUTIONS KEEPS DROPPING

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From: E&E News PM “”The U.S. averages more than 1,000 major industrial chemical accidents every year,” Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in an email. “Eliminating any federal capacity to learn the causes of ...

TRUMP TO AGAIN PROPOSE ELIMINATING CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD, OFFICIALS SAY

by | February 1, 2018
From: Bloomberg Businessweek “”The U.S. averages more than 1,000 major industrial chemical accidents every year,” Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in an email. “Eliminating any federal capacity to learn the causes ...

ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND FEDS REACH SETTLEMENT OVER BISON MANAGEMENT

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From: Courthouse News Service “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) said “a new era may be dawning” over management of the National Bison Range in Moiese, Montana.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

BISON RANGE LAWSUIT SETTLED

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From: Daily Inter Lake “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in May 2016, when the agency was considering transferring the range, home to an estimated 350 bison, to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.” Read more ...

SETTLEMENT FORCES NATIONAL BISON RANGE TO FORGE CONSERVATION PLAN BY 2023

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From: KGVO “The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a group called PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) settled a lawsuit this week that focuses on a missing conservation plan for the National Bison Range. Though she’s not a public employee, Susan Campbel Reneau was ...
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