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BUNDY VOWS STANDOFF IF BLM TRIES TO SEIZE CATTLE

by Susan Sargent | January 12, 2018
From: Greenwire “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and WildEarth Guardians also urged Zinke to seize the Bundy cattle.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

TRUMP DECISION FOR DEPUTY DOI DIRECTOR ATTRACTS HEAT

From: Kaplan Herald “”It is disturbing but perhaps indicative that the Trump people would resurrect a political hatchet man to take the helm at the National Park Service. In the Snyder-gate affair, Smith demonstrated a complete lack of respect for protecting park resources or for ...

WATCHDOG SUES FOR REORGANIZATION COMMENTS

From: Greenwire “The six-page complaint from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that OMB has refused to divulge those comments.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

FOR FLORIDA PANTHERS, EXTINCTION COMES ON FOUR WHEELS

by Susan Sargent | January 9, 2018
From: The Revelator “ “The Florida panther is suffering slow-motion extinction,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, in a recent public statement.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

TRANSPARENT TASK FORCE?

by Susan Sargent | January 8, 2018
From: Cape Cod Times “Equally troubling is the opaque process in which this 42-point plan came to be. According to the EPA, 107 department members worked on the report for a month before turning over the final document to Pruitt. But when the advocacy group Public Employees for ...

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES COULD TAKE CENTER STAGE IN FLORIDA SENATE RACE

From: Washington Post ““One of the things he’s tried to do is repaint himself as an environmental governor,” said Jerry Phillips, a former enforcement attorney at the state’s Department of Environmental Protection who now runs the Florida field office for the nonprofit group ...
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