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From: The Hill “In a letter sent Monday to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) argued that recent steps taken by the overseeing U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office to diminish staff at the park to 4.5 on-site staff hurt the ...

Without a Quorum, MSPB Paralyzed as Cases in Backlog Limbo Now Exceed 1,100 ...

From: Indy Bay “The parcels in question border former Parcel A where families are now housed according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility executive director Jeff Ruch. Ruch obtained the EPA review under the Freedom of Information Act and states, “Documents ...

From: NRDC: On Earth “The order comes as part of a Freedom of Information Act dispute between Pruitt’s EPA and the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER. The group has demanded that the EPA produce data in support of Pruitt’s claim, while the agency ...

From: Esquire “That storms are becoming stronger, wetter, and slower is pushing us toward something resembling a bimonthly catastrophe every year at this time. Luckily, we have Scott (Free Lunch) Pruitt on the job, as a federal judge made clear on Wednesday.” Read more . . . ...

From: The Austin-American Statesman “The science board “should protect human health and the environment, but they are getting rid of real scientists and stacking it with ones their donors want in there,” Kyla Bennett, a former EPA employee who now works for the watchdog group ...

From: The Heartland Institute “The day after that interview, a group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request demanding “EPA documents that support the conclusion that human activity is not the largest factor ...

From: Boisie State Public Radio “‘I’m 66 years old,’ he said. ‘I did not see that I had that kind of energy that I could commit to three to five years and so I made the decision to retire.’ Wenk is one of many senior leaders at the Park Service targeted for ...

From: Mountain Journal “Against his will, in violation of an informal “gentleman’s agreement,” and amid public outrage, Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk has received notification from the U.S. Interior Department informing him that he is being forcibly re- ...

From: Common Dreams “Reports of coal executive Bob Murray’s suggestions for pro-fossil fuel executive orders in early 2017 raised further concerns on Thursday regarding his industry’s power over the Trump administration. The biggest concern, tweeted Public Employees for ...

From: Motherboard “After Pruitt ignored an FOIA request for studies supporting his view that humans are not the primary contributor to climate change, environmental advocates turned to the courts.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: Inside EPA “A federal district court judge is rejecting EPA’s refusal to provide documents showing the basis of Administrator Scott Pruitt’s claim that human-released carbon dioxide is not the “primary contributor” to climate change, and is instead ordering the ...

From: Ars Technica “Since Pruitt’s words contradicted scientific evidence shared by the EPA before the administrator took office, PEER’s request might turn up some recent document that indicated Pruitt had new information. Instead, the EPA stalled and refused to provide any ...

From: Scientific American “A court case may compel him to produce research that attempts to contradict the mountain of peer-reviewed studies collected by the world’s top science agencies over decades that show humans are warming the planet at an unprecedented pace through the ...

From: E&E News “Although more than one year has elapsed since the plaintiffs submitted the FOIA request, EPA has conducted no search for any responsive records, not produced any records to the plaintiff,” Howell wrote.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: Government Executive “A federal judge on Friday scolded Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt for failing to respond to a nonprofit’s Freedom of Information Act request for climate change studies Pruitt claimed bolstered his skeptical views.” Read ...

From: Washington Examiner “The court order was in response to a lawsuit by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The group’s FOIA request that initiated the suit was based on Pruitt’s March 9, 2017, interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” where Pruitt stated, “ ...

From: San Francisco Chronicle “Land deemed free of harmful radioactivity and safe for the city to occupy has now come under question as the scandal over the purported cleanup of San Francisco’s biggest redevelopment site continues to grow. On four portions of the former Hunters ...

From: Courthouse News “The environmental nonprofit sought the records because Pruitt’s statement directly contradicts the EPA’s own conclusion that the burning of fossil fuels is the primary human activity driving climate change. But more than a year later, the EPA has still not ...

From: Law360 “A group representing public environmental workers asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday to enforce wastewater discharge permit limits for the St. Johns River in northeast Florida, saying the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s “chronic ...