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The New Acting Interior Secretary Is An Agency Insider And Ex-Oil Lobbyist

by | January 3, 2019
From: KUER 90.1 “In addition to his track record in Washington governance and politics, Bernhardt also has experience in the fossil fuel industry. He worked for a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm where E&E News reported that his clients included Cobalt International Energy and the ...

More than 800 Florida Manatees Died in 2018

by | January 3, 2019
From: Dive Photo Guide “How many more bad years can manatees endure before triggering an irreversible downward population spiral?” asked Jeff Ruch, Executive Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Indeed, it may not be long before the Florida manatee’s ...

Proposed Rule Aims To Curb Public Records Requests As Demand For Documents Increases

by | January 3, 2019
From: KUER 90.1 “A new rule proposed last week by the U.S. Interior Department could make it harder for news outlets and non-profit organizations to get public information on a range of federal issues. Once adopted, the regulations would allow the agency to put a cap on the number of ...

New Interior FOIA Rule Could Make it Harder to Get Public Documents

by | January 2, 2019
From: The Hill “An Interior spokesperson would not answer questions about the rule change, citing the government shutdown. The rule was signed by Principal Deputy Solicitor Daniel Jorjani, a former adviser to Charles and David Koch. An Interior spokesperson in early December cited ...

Under Cover of Shutdown, Trump Admin Quietly Moves to Deprive ‘American People of Their Right to Know What Government Is Doing’

by | January 2, 2019
From: Common Dreams “Amid the chaos of the ongoing government shutdown and winter holidays, critics on Monday are calling out the Trump administration for quietly moving to make it harder for the public to find out what goes on behind closed doors at the U.S. Department of the Interior. ...

Manatee Deaths In 2018 Approach All-Time High

by | January 2, 2019
From: CBS 4 Miami “As 2018 comes to a close, it’s been a bad year of Florida’s manatee population with the second highest number of deaths ever recorded. According to preliminary figures posted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), more than 800 manatees died ...

New Alaska Wildlife Managers Could Revive Old Fights Over Federal Protections, Bear- and Wolf-Killing

by | December 31, 2018
From: Alaska Public Media “If I were a wolf or a bear in Alaska right now, I would be headed for the Canadian border, ASAP,” said Rick Steiner, an environmental advocate and former marine conservation professor in Anchorage. Among Steiner’s concerns was the hiring of Grasser as the ...

‘War on Transparency’: US Agency Plans Crackdown on Information Requests

by | December 30, 2018
From: The Guardian “Overall, though, Ruch said the department’s efforts to alter its Foia policies will “increase the burden on requestors and create a lot more confusion”. “This appears to be an attempt to buttress the bunker and make the department less transparent,” he says ...

Sanders County: The Year in Review

by | December 28, 2018
From: Clark Fork Valley Press “Federal wildlife officials have agreed to prepare a conservation plan for Montana’s National Bison Range as part of a settlement in a lawsuit brought by an environmental group. The settlement filed last week in U.S. District Court resolves a 2016 ...

Ralph Nader: Ralph’s Year End Charitable Giving Favorites

by | December 28, 2018
From: The Litchfield County Times “A group of U.S. Forest Service professionals started this remarkable group, which has since spread to civil servants in other federal agencies such as the EPA and the Department of the Interior. PEER’s staff is knowledgeable, organized and relentless ...

New Regional Forester Says Agency is Responding to Timber Sale Concerns

by | December 28, 2018
From: KFSK “In early November Petersburg’s borough assembly voted to send a letter to the chief of the U.S. Forest Service asking for information on Tongass National Forest timber sales. The letter cites a 2016 review by staff in the Forest Service’s Washington office that detailed ...

Climate Team, and Its Boss, Just Got Harder to Find at Top Health Agency

by | December 21, 2018
From: The New York Times “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly folded its Climate and Health Program into a branch that studies asthma and expunged the word climate from the name of the newly consolidated office, the agency confirmed on Thursday. An agency ...

Trump Moves to Gut the Clean Water Act

by | December 14, 2018
From: The Nation “Now that the Trump administration’s performance at the COP 24 meeting in Poland has thoroughly trampled over climate-change protections, Trump is moving on from promoting air pollution to embark on a crusade to unleash pollution in the nation’s waters. With a ...

Selling Shipyard Safety

by | December 13, 2018
From: San Francisco Chronicle “Beyond the home area, the situation is even more fluid. The Navy has laid out its plan to retest the shipyard, but the EPA and other agencies have said the Navy is trying to cut corners. Regulators probably will be wrestling over the details into next year ...

EW: New EPA Rule Would Sabotage Clean Water Act

by | December 11, 2018
From: Eco Watch “In a move environmentalists are warning will seriously endanger drinking water and wildlife nationwide, President Donald Trump’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly gearing up to hand yet another gift to big polluters by drastically curtailing ...

CT: EPA Denies Petition to Stop Cyanide Use that Is Killing Wildlife

by | December 11, 2018
From: Citizen Truth “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has denied a petition seeking to ban M-44s — cyanide-spraying apparatuses used to kill coyotes, foxes, and wild dogs that may prey on livestock. Submitted to the EPA in August 2017 by the Center for Biological Diversity, ...

EPA’s New Water Rule Will Gut The Clean Water Act

by | December 10, 2018
From: The Intercept “As a result of the change, an estimated 60-90 percent of U.S. waterways could lose federal protections that currently shield them from pollution and development, according to Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at Public Employees for Environmental ...

‘Complete Wiping Away of Clean Water Act’: Trump EPA Rule Would Free Corporations to Pollute Nation’s Water as Much as They Please

by | December 10, 2018
From: Common Dreams “”As a result of the change, an estimated 60-90 percent of U.S. waterways could lose federal protections that currently shield them from pollution and development,” The Intercept’s Sharon Lerner reported on Friday, citing an analysis by Public ...

Malibu residents oppose plans to consolidate PCB removal with new construction

by | December 10, 2018
From: Santa Monica Daily Press “PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) released a press release Dec. 5 claiming SMMUSD’s proposed 5-year Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) clean up extension would put students and staff in classrooms that would expose them to illegal ...

Turning the Toxic Tide: Florida Needs New Approach to Environmental Regulation

by | December 7, 2018
From: TC Palm “IScott’s appointees brought with them a new approach to regulation, articulated in a 2011 memo by then-DEP Deputy Secretary for Regulatory Programs Jeff Littlejohn. When violations occur, he wrote, regulators’ first consideration “should be whether you can bring ...
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