EPA MARKS SEVEN SUPERFUND SITES AS CLEAN
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Susan Sargent | January 3, 2018
From: Pacific Standard “In June, the task force issued a report with 42 recommendations, which Pruitt adopted immediately. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the documents the task force used to create the ...
EPA FAILS PUBLIC IN LACK OF TRANSPARENCY ON SUPERFUND CHANGES
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Susan Sargent | December 29, 2017
From: Burlington Record “No doubt, Pruitt’s EPA feels under siege from groups like PEER. But the environmentalists are correct to say it strains credulity to believe the Superfund report itself represents the full work product that led to the revised procedures. Were industry ...
FOR YEAR END CHARITABLE GIVING – SOME FAVORITES
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Susan Sargent | December 28, 2017
From: Huffington Post “PEER’s staff is knowledgeable, organized and relentless in protecting federal employees’ right to bring their conscience to work and speak out against unlawful or reckless devastation of our environmental resources and health. “ Read more . . . Read the ...
WIRE THE WILDERNESS? AS CELL SERVICE EXPANDS, NATIONAL PARKS BECOME THE LATEST DIGITAL BATTLEGROUNDS
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Susan Sargent |
From: Merced Sun Star “PEER, which has asked the Interior Department’s Inspector General to investigate, said that Yosemite is “violation of both federal laws and agency policies” by approving the towers without public notice or environmental review. The group also unearthed ...
COVERING THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
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Susan Sargent |
From: NM Political Report “Despite the hopes of many, the Obama administration didn’t necessarily champion environmental issues or the agencies and employees working on natural resources. “For the most part, except in recent months, it had been benign neglect,” Jeff Ruch, ...
700+ EMPLOYEES HAVE LEFT THE EPA UNDER TRUMP: LOSS OF SCIENTISTS, STAFFERS UNDERMINES AGENCY’S PURPOSE
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Susan Sargent |
From: Eco Watch ““There has been a drop of employees of 770 between April and December. While several hundred of those are buyouts, the rest of those are either people that are retiring or quitting in disgust,” Kyla Bennett, director of New England Public Employees for ...