PEERMail | Important Whistleblower Victories
Important Whistleblower Victories With Whistleblower Appreciation Day this Saturday, we have some important victories to share about employees who have stepped forward to expose wrongdoing in their agencies. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued...Interior Has Bad Case of Climate “Cow Blindness”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, July 25, 2022 Contact: Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Chandra Rosenthal [email protected] (303) 898-0798 Interior Has Bad Case of Climate “Cow Blindness” Failure to Address Commercial Livestock Climate Impacts Invites Lawsuits...Letter to Sec. Haaland – Climate Impacts of Livestock Grazing
DESCRIPTION: Letter to Secretary Deb Haaland and the Climate Task Force regarding Interior’s failure to address climate Impacts of its commercial livestock program DATE: July 22, 2022 TAGS: Climate change, grazing, grazing reform, DOI, livestock, climate science...EPA Corrupted Pesticide Risk Assessment to Aid Industry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, July 21, 2022 Contact: Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Kyla Bennett [email protected] (508) 230-9933 EPA Corrupted Pesticide Risk Assessment to Aid Industry IG Found Managers Trampled Standard Procedures to Diminish Cancer Risk...COMMENTARY | Environmental Whistleblowers and the Need for Change at EPA
Environmental Whistleblowers and the Need for Change at EPA Growing up, I admired those who spoke up and challenged authority, from Frank Serpico, the New York cop who blew the whistle on police corruption to Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, a...Florida’s Waters Awash in Sewage Spills
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, July 20, 2022 Contact: Jerry Phillips [email protected] (850) 877-8097 Florida’s Waters Awash in Sewage Spills Under DeSantis, More Inspections, More Pollution but Less Enforcement Tallahassee, FL —Despite increasing pollution,...National Park Ranger Ranks Spread Dangerously Thin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, July 19, 2022 Contact: Jeff Ruch [email protected] (510) 213-7028 Colleen Teubner [email protected] (202) 464-2293 National Park Ranger Ranks Spread Dangerously Thin Rescues Soar, Crime Rises in National Parks Lacking Enforcement Plans...REPORT | The Biden Administration’s Bureau of Land Management
As the Biden administration nears its halfway point, there are encouraging signs of progress and plenty of room for growth when it comes to conserving public lands. The Biden administration has made strides towards reigning in extractive industries that operate on...EPA Validates Colorado Air Whistleblowers’ Charge
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, July 15, 2022 Contact: Chandra Rosenthal [email protected] (303) 898-0798 EPA Validates Colorado Air Whistleblowers’ Charge State Directed to Fix Illegal Permits and Cease Enabling Pollution Evasions Denver, CO —In a report...Op-Ed | An alarm is raised, little is done, and employees flee
Originally published in and reprinted with permission of the Colorado Sun. An alarm is raised, little is done, and employees flee Fed up with the state’s failure to regulate air permits and after years of quietly watching the quality of Colorado’s air decline, about a...REPORT | 2021 Florida Enforcement Report
DESCRIPTION: Report on Enforcement Efforts by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection – Calendar Year 2021 DATE: July 13, 2022 TAGS: Florida, Pollution, Water Pollution View the report below or click here to download....PEERMail | Supreme Threats
Supreme Threats We are fighting mad about the Supreme Court’s recent decision in West Virginia v. EPA. In this case, the Court ruled that EPA does not have the authority under the Clean Air Act to create a system-wide cap of greenhouse gas emissions to address climate...Opinion: An alarm is raised, little is done, and employees flee
From: The Colorado Sun