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From: Greenwire “Last month, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility asked Interior’s inspector general to probe the agency’s use of temporary or acting directors and whether it had violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, possibly making decisions invalid ( ...

From: LA Times “The effort is aimed at removing federal Clean Water Act protection from millions of miles of streams and wetlands, including more than 80% of the waters in California and the arid West. The administration last month suspended for two years the new guidelines protecting ...

From: The Daily Yonder ““While heavily subsidized grazing is not new to this administration, reducing low fees even further is a step in the wrong direction,” said Kirsten Stade, advocacy director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). “Keeping grazing ...

From: CNN “Internal emails obtained by the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, and shared with CNN, show the logistical hoops Park Service staff jumped through when they had to divert an agency boat from its usual Ventura, California, location to meet Zinke ...

From: Buzzfeed News “”By merging these offices, to me, it seems like another nail in the coffin of science,” Kyla Bennett, who ran wetland enforcement and permitting in EPA’s New England region under the Clinton and Bush administrations.” Read more . . . Read the ...

From: Tulsa World “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, known as CREW, say that Pruitt and other EPA officials avoid keeping notes on important issues to avoid leaving a paper trail the public and press can ...