News Clips

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 ...

From: Tampa Bay Times “Freshwater turtles began turning up dead along the St. Johns River in January. Now about 100 dead or dying turtles have been found in water bodies in Orange, Seminole and Putnam counties.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: E&E News “Given that this high-level official is directly soliciting funds for his purported personal benefit, Mr. Pruitt needs to do far more than he is currently doing to avoid giving the inevitable appearance that official integrity and impartiality may be at risk,” ...

From: The Hill “The group alleges that Pruitt’s fund, developed to help him pay for legal representation through numerous ethics and spending scandals, violates rules against accepting gifts from parties a federal employee regulates, engaging in action that could result in “ ...

From: The Daily Caller “CSB board members are expected to vote an Obama administration appointee as “interim executive” to take over for outgoing CSB chairwoman Vanessa Sutherland, said sources, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity. Sutherland announced her ...

From: The Florida Times-Union “State officials repeatedly downplayed violations of pollution permits at Northeast Florida wastewater treatment plants that affect the St. Johns River, a whistle-blower group is telling the federal government. Public Employees for Environmental ...

From: Sunnyside Daily Sun “The settlement came about after the professor enlisted the help of the Silver Spring, Md.-based political action group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in bringing both the lawsuit and the complaint against Joel. Don’t know about you, but ...

From: Beyond Pesticides “In 2015, Public Employees for Environmental Responsbility (PEER) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, detailing false and deceptive claims by manufacturers of pesticide misters. Specifically, PEER noted that manufacturers claim that these ...

From: NBC Bay Area “The U.S. Navy has uncovered further data falsification at the Hunters Point Shipyard, this time regarding radiation surveys conducted on 28 buildings at the site, according to a federal report uncovered by the Washington, D.C.-based environmental watchdog group, ...

From: InsideEPA “A source at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which represents whistleblowers at EPA and other agencies, told Inside EPA, “eliminating wetlands that cannot be discerned by the naked eye . . . is ludicrous — it essentially eliminates ...

From: YubaNet “In this timber sale, Good Neighbor authority became a license to loot,” stated PEER Staff Counsel Adam Carlesco, arguing that under the guise of restoration, damaging clear-cutting occurred. “Both the U.S. Forest Service and the Alaska Department of Natural ...

From: E&E News “Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the numbers don’t reveal whether there’s more misconduct at the agency, comparing OSC data to “the blind man and the elephant.” To know more about what ...

From: The College Fix “The group representing Wielgus, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said WSU issued a cease-and-desist letter against him so he would stop “lobbying” on wolf issues and restricted his grant funds so he couldn’t be reimbursed for research- ...