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NOMINATIONS: PRUITT’S NEW LEGAL ALLY IN CLIMATE RULE APPEAL

by Susan Sargent | September 18, 2017
From: Climatewire “Jerry Phillips, a former enforcement attorney at Florida DEP and director of Florida Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), has been tracking Scott’s environmental enforcement record in the state… “From the minute Scott took over, ...

STATE OF ALASKA RENEWS EFFORT TO SEARCH FOR OIL IN THE ARCTIC REFUGE

by Susan Sargent | September 15, 2017
From: The Wilderness Society “Joining the Trump administration’s assault on federal lands across America, the state of Alaska is preparing to renew efforts to explore for oil on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

PLANS TO REDUCE NUMBER OF GRAND CANYON BISON ADVANCE ON TWO FRONTS

From: Cronkite News “Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said then that the plan would turn the Grand Canyon “into a game farm managed for the benefit of Arizona Game and Fish … slaughter should not become a routine park wildlife ...

EPA: DEMS WORRY ENFORCEMENT PICK HAS ALREADY STARTED WORK

by Susan Sargent | September 14, 2017
From: Greenwire “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility late last month voiced similar concerns after EPA officials indicated that Bodine would start at the agency on Sept. 5, before she is officially confirmed.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

CO AND CARS: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

From: Safety Research & Strategies “The most recent petition was filed in March 2016 by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Like its predecessors, PEER requested that the agency issue annual consumer advisories and recommend the use of onboard digital CO monitors; to ...

CAHNRS CONFLICTS UNDERMINING ACADEMIC FREEDOM, FACULTY SAY

From: The Daily Evergreen “Many cases throughout the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resources Sciences echo the concerns of professor Robert Wielgus, who filed ethics complaints against WSU after administrators disavowed his wolf research. Other conflicts stem from disputes ...
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