FORMER NPS OFFICIAL FOUND TO HAVE OVERLOOKED ENVIRONMENTAL REGS SAID TO BE NEXT ACTING DIRECTOR
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PEER | January 5, 2018
From: National Parks Traveler “Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, was disappointed that Secretary Zinke would bring Smith back into the Park Service. “It is disturbing but perhaps indicative that the Trump people would resurrect a ...
STATE FISH FARMS HAVE OK TO KILL CORMORANTS
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From: Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette “The Fish and Wildlife Service is required to assess how depredation orders affect the cormorant’s population every five years. A group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the agency regarding how it was ...
FOR CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD, ADVICE TO FEDERAL AGENCIES PILES UP
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PEER | January 3, 2018
From: Bloomberg ““A lot of the agencies they are going to are EPA and OSHA, which have severe cases of regulatory constipation,” Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which advocates for government employees, told Bloomberg Environment ...
INSIDE RYAN ZINKE’S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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From: Outside “That’s not to say the department is totally leaderless, says Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Employees “are getting direction. But they’re not getting direction from people that have any on-the-ground experience in ...
EPA MARKS SEVEN SUPERFUND SITES AS CLEAN
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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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PEER | 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 ...
