Grand Teton National Park Seeking Comment On Telecommunications Plan
From: National Parks Traveler “The purpose of the assessment is to consider a right-of-way permit request for updating and expanding telecommunication capabilities in developed areas of Grand Teton National Park, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, and connecting to Yellowstone ...
Federal Obama Holdovers Are Entering a Court ‘Slugfest’ For Allegedly Firing Someone Illegally
From: The Daily Caller “Members of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) will appear at a hearing Thursday to argue over the handling of former CSB managing director Daniel Horowitz’s termination from the agency. The hearing will be a “political slugfest” between political ...
Interior Hid Scientists’ Criticism of ANWR Drilling: Report
From: E&E News “Newly leaked Interior Department documents raise questions about the environmental review of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain. The documents show that federal scientists drafted 18 memos detailing the environmental “ ...
Action Jackson: Of Poachers, Grizzlies and Coexistence
From: Counter Punch “Bob was on a roll until he brought an elk-poaching case against a hunting guide who had worked for an outfitter named Harold Turner — a case he discusses in the podcast. The Turner family, which owns the famous Triangle X Ranch in Jackson Hole, is friends with ...
Vice President Mike Pence: ‘America will never be a socialist country’
From: USA Today “Since taking office, Trump has dismantled several of former President Barack Obama’s environmental protection efforts. The Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal enforcement of anti-pollution cases is at a 30-year low, according to a Public Employees for ...
Employee Group Concerned About Cuts to Park Service Training
From: Federal News Network “How often have you heard the complaint that the first thing cut when budgets aren’t right is training? At the National Park Service, that seems to be the case, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The group called the agency ...
Journalist Claims State Dept Rescinded Award Because She Criticized Trump
From: ABC News “Flor De Maria Vega Zapata was awarded for leading a team of environmental enforcement prosecutors in Peru that protects natural resources, biodiversity, and public health. But under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency’s criminal enforcement ...
Pruitt Never Consulted EPA Ethics Office About His Legal Defense Fund
From: Yahoo Finance “Facing more than a dozen investigations into his conduct last spring, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced that he was starting a legal defense fund, raising concerns about the propriety of a government official raising money to fend ...
Toxic Chemicals Threaten Water Supply in Seven Municipalities
From: Boston Globe “These off-the-charts PFAS levels represent a direct and immediate threat to the public health of the Commonwealth,” said Kyla Bennett, a former scientist at the EPA who now serves as director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in New England, an ...
Toxic algae, polluted waters: Has Florida finally had enough? | Commentary
by Orlando Sentinel | March 5, 2019
“This is why several communities in southwest Florida — including Venice, Sarasota and North Port — passed resolutions asking DeSantis to adopt measures specifically like the one Good and Livingston drafted. They are sick of everyone else’s crap (sometimes literally) fouling their ...
How Trump’s EPA is Letting Environmental Criminals Off the Hook, in One Chart
From: Vox “A January report from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), an advocacy group for public sector workers who deal with environmental issues, shows that the number of criminal cases the EPA referred to the Justice Department under President Trump is at the ...
Expect New Chemical Safety Reporting Regs By Fall
From: Law360 “Ultimately the court ordered the CSB to promulgate final accidental chemical release regulations within 12 months. Absent a successful appeal or request for extension by the CSB, owners and operators of industrial facilities can expect to see a new rule-making — with an ...
EPA Official Agreed to Help Former Colleague’s Husband Find ‘Senior’ Position at the Agency
From: Think Progress “[It’s] something I’ve been concerned about with this administration overall,” Rosenberg said. He also referenced the role Beck has played since joining the administration, including pushing back on controversial efforts to restrict the use of scientific data ...
Public-Land Grazing Fees at Lowest Legal Level
From: The Daily Sentinel “The Western Watersheds Project, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians on Thursday criticized the fee reduction in a joint news release. They say many BLM grazing allotments are in poor ...
Interior Looking to Rely on Staffers With Less Training for Park Law Enforcement: Report
From: The Hill “A report by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to be released Monday, finds that the NPS is seeking to implement a new proposal that would shift the reliance from full-time law enforcement officers to seasonal staffers, who require less robust ...
Federal Employees Warned Not to Engage in Trump ‘Resistance‘ Activities at Work
From: The Herndon Gazette “Advocating for a candidate to be impeached, and thus potentially disqualified from holding federal office, is clearly directed at the failure of that candidate’s campaign for federal office,” the rule states. “Similarly, advocating against a candidate’s ...
Agencies Reduce Grazing Fees for Federal Land
From: The Hill “Conservation groups criticized the change, saying the fees were already far too low to pay for managing the lands. “BLM’s own records reveal that much of the sagebrush West is in severely degraded condition due to excessive commercial livestock grazing,” Kirsten ...
EPA Sued Over Refusal to Release PolyMet Comments
From: The TimberJay “The federal Environmental Protection Agency is facing a lawsuit over allegations that it prevented its own environmental specialists from providing written comments to Minnesota regulators documenting concerns over a proposed state-issued water discharge permit to ...
No GoFundMe Campaigns For Shutdown Employees, Says Federal Ethics Office
From: Boisie State Public Radio “During the five-week partial shutdown, thousands of federal employees took to GoFundMe or other online platforms to fundraise for groceries, day care costs or mortgage payments. According to the memo, that’s a no-no. “GoFundMe opens up to anyone,” ...
EPA Clouding Access To Staffers’ Views On Mine, Enviros Say
From: Law 360 “U.S. Environmental Protection Agency staffers involved in the Clean Water Act permit process for a $1 billion planned copper and nickel mine in Minnesota told a state agency they had concerns” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...