INTERIOR: ENERGY COMPANIES PAID BERNHARDT MORE THAN $80K LAST YEAR
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Susan Sargent | May 11, 2017
From: Greenwire “”I am writing you on behalf of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to express our opposition to the nomination of David Bernhardt as Deputy Secretary, Department of Interior and to urge your Committee to thoroughly investigate his role in ...
DESPITE BEAR CONCERNS, RACE STILL ON, SAY WILDLIFE OFFICIALS
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Susan Sargent |
From: Los Alamos Monitor “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility last week said the National Park Service is downplaying the threat of interactions between wildlife and participants in a 50-mile race on Saturday at the Valles Caldera National Preserve. “If you read the ...
EPA EMPLOYEES, UNIONS AND SCIENTISTS UPSET AT SCIENCE BOARD FIRINGS
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Susan Sargent |
From: Government Executive “The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility heard from numerous EPA employees who spoke anonymously, having already received an all-staff memo from Pruitt that was “pro-business.” The employees “are shocked and dismayed that the ...
COLORADO CONGRESSMEN WANT BLM OFFICE OUT WEST
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Susan Sargent | May 10, 2017
From: Santa Fe New Mexican “Jeff Ruch, executive director of the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the idea of moving BLM’s headquarters “seems more of a political stunt than a thoughtful proposal.”” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
NATIONAL PARKS: POLICE UNION WANTS ZINKE TO SPLIT FORCE FROM NPS
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Susan Sargent |
From: Greenwire “…the agency also struggles with a $12 billion maintenance backlog, and many parks are operating without a full staff. The number of law enforcement rangers has also dipped to 1,331 in 2016 from 1,547 in 2006, according to numbers NPS released to Public Employees ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK MOVING AHEAD WITH NORTH UNIT COMMUNICATION TOWER
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Susan Sargent | May 9, 2017
From: National Parks Traveler “The issue of a signal bleed was raised last fall by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which worried that Verizon’s signal from the tower would “blanket designated wilderness with cell phone coverage.”” Read more ...
