From: The Business Journal
“Despite that claim, a report was ready but never released, said Jeff Ruch, Pacific region director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit service organization for local, state and federal environmental and public health employees. Instead, after the report was submitted ahead of the deadline, he said 20 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers who conducted much of the research were reassigned, and the White House has put together over the past week a new research group to study the Delta pumping issue because the White House reportedly didn’t like the conclusions of the first report.”