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From: Napa Valley Register “A firm accused in a lawsuit filed Tuesday of putting the lives of residents in San Francisco’s Bayview and Hunters Points neighborhoods at risk by allegedly falsifying radiation cleanup data says the suit is baseless.” Read more . . . Read the PEER ...

From: NBC Bay Area “Two former radiation control technician supervisors for Tetra Tech, the company hired to clean up radiation at the Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco, have been sentenced to eight months in prison for falsifying records.” Read more . . . Read the PEER ...

From: Fox KTVU “We believe the lawsuit is factually incorrect and without merit. Tetra Tech stands by this work at Hunters Point. Our work was done properly and to the standard required by the U.S. Navy,” Tetra Tech said in a statement.” Read more . . . Read the PEER ...

From: Jackson Hole News & Guide “The watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility contends there’s reason to believe parts of the “stealth makeover” are political. One of the executives being reassigned, Alaska Regional Director Bert Frost, is the ...

From: Chicago Tribune “special prosecutor has been appointed to review whether unauthorized construction activities have taken place at the pavilion at Indiana Dunes State Park, as suggested by Dunes Action, a local grassroots group that has raised concerns about plans there.” ...

From: Government Executive “How could they not locate 100,000 comments?” Ruch said. “The White House call for public involvement in reforming government seems to have been merely a cynical stunt.” An OMB official did not comment on why the agency could not produce documents. &# ...

From: SF Weekly “Last month, a watchdog group in Washington D.C., Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, revealed that the EPA suspected the fraud was further-reaching than initially thought. The document dump unleashed a torrent of fury and desperate questions regarding ...

From: San Francisco Examiner “For more than a decade, Bayview community activists have called on local and state leaders to address environmental and health concerns impacting a largely African American population living near the contaminated former naval base. The shipyard was the ...

From: National Parks Traveler “President Trump reportedly favors chaos as a managerial tool, and proposed personnel changes at the National Park Service not only would insert that element into the agency’s upper echelon, but also be reminiscent of past efforts to gain political ...

From: Yellowstone Insider “According to the Chronicle, the proposed reassignment comes as a surprise to organizations like the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. It also follows controversy over the reassignment of other Interior ...

From: Bozeman Daily Chronicle “Jeff Ruch said PEER believes acting National Park Service Director Danny Smith called the six people involved and informed them of the impending transfers. Ruch added that the employees must either accept such transfers or be removed from federal ...

From: The Washington Post “These multiple moves resemble a purge and have no apparent management motivation other than to marginalize and disrupt,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a frequent critic of the Interior ...

From: East Bay Times “The report uses terms you don’t usually see in bureaucratic transmissions — falsification, fraudulence — very strong language,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility group, which obtained the EPA ...

From: SF Gate “Contra Costa County Supervisor Federal Glover is calling for an investigation of allegations that radioactive materials from San Francisco might have been deposited at Keller Canyon Landfill, Glover said Thursday.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: San Francisco Chronicle “While there has been wild speculation regarding the data collected at the site, we believe that any concerns can be directly addressed by actually retesting and analyzing the areas in question,” he said. “We want the Hunters Point community and the ...

From: NBC Bay Area “”Independent retesting is a critical element of the Navy’s Hunters Point re-evaluation workplan,” Navy cleanup coordinator Derek Robinson wrote in an email to NBC Bay Area. “Its purpose is not to exonerate the contractors involved, but to offer a ...

From: Chesterton Tribune “On Wednesday, April 18, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and Dunes Action jointly reported two apparent violations of Indiana Code to Porter County Prosecuting Attorney Brian Gensel, related to what the two groups believe are ...

From: San Francisco Examiner “Responding to mounting concerns by both federal agencies and community watchdog groups about the integrity of the company’s radiological testing and decontamination efforts at the Shipyard, which is slated for redevelopment with 12,000 units of housing ...

From: NWI.com “According to the letter, the two groups, which have been at odds with the DNR and Pavilion Partners since it came to light in 2015 that the state was seeking a private company to do renovations to the 90-year-old pavilion and other projects at the state park, are ...

From: KTOO Public Media “An environmental advocacy organization says the U.S. Forest Service doesn’t appear to be taking steps to correct costly problems in Tongass timber contracts. The federal agency has released thousands of pages in response to its Freedom of Information Act ...