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From: Inside OSHA Online “The promulgation of a reporting regulation is a discrete action required by law. In addition to the plain language of the statute confirming this non-discretionary duty, there have been four independent reviews from three different oversight bodies declaring ...

From: EHS Daily Advisor “In her opinion, Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell noted that more than a year after PEER submitted its request the EPA had not even conducted a search for the requested materials. Howell further agreed with PEER that the EPA was in violation with the FOIA. ...

From: News Wheel “A report by environmental advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has raised concerns that the Environmental Protection Agency, which is currently embroiled in a bitter conflict with California and a collection of other states over vehicle ...

From: PSNews “Senior Counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Paula Dinerstein said that through its inattention, the White House had caused a merit system train-wreck in which whistleblower protections and other safeguards were functionally nullified. ...

From: Mountain Journal “In a letter sent to Zinke Friday, June 22, U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman of California, who serves as the Democrat’s vice-ranking member of the committee, wrote, “we are concerned that this particular reassignment, in the context of a pattern of questionable ...

From: Government Executive “At a time when the Environmental Protection Agency has tripled the number of bodyguards for the administrator, the agency’s cases brought against polluters is in “free fall,” according to a study released on Thursday by the advocacy group Public ...

From: Beyond Pesticides “In 2015, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (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: Green Car Reports “If the EPA wants to reduce federal involvement in environmental protection, it may not need to roll back emissions requirements or cancel California’s environmental waiver. It could just quit enforcing the law. That is already happening to a degree, ...

From: The Washington Post “According to data released Thursday by the environmental advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the number of special agents at the EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) fell from 157 in September 2016, shortly before ...

From: YubaNet “Through its inattention, the Trump White House has caused a merit system train-wreck in which whistleblower protections and other safeguards are functionally nullified,” stated PEER Senior Counsel Paula Dinerstein, noting even if a whistleblower wins an initial ...

From: East Bay Times “Between 2011 and 2017, Keller Canyon accepted 223,000 tons of material from Hunter’s Point that was certified as nonhazardous under 13 separate waste applications, according to Marilyn Underwood, the county’s director of environmental health. On two ...

From: Motherboard “He found that the rate of wolves preying on livestock actually goes up the more wolves in an area are killed, because it destabilizes the pack’s dynamics. This effect continues until 25 percent of the wolf population has been killed, at which point cattle ...

From: The Washington Post “Former enforcement officials worry the new procedures will have a chilling effect among career employees who are already worried about running afoul of an administration that is trying to roll back many environmental rules at the behest of companies the ...

From: UPI.com “One of Montana’s major tourist attractions is operating with so few staff, its visitor center is forced to close two days a week throughout the summer,” a news release announcing the letter said. “These Tuesday and Wednesday closures that also deny ...

From: Legal Reader “PEER’s broad FOIA filing requested “EPA documents that support the conclusion that human activity is not the largest factor driving global climate change.” The EPA, an agency once tasked with protecting the environment, fought back, refusing to comply with ...

From: Chemical Watch “Two US NGOs, Beyond Pesticides and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), have strongly criticised the US EPA’s new proposal on science transparency for exempting registration data on biocides and pesticides under the Federal Insecticide, ...

From: Gephardt Daily “The National Bison Range — the 10th most visited refuge in the National Wildlife Refuge System with more than 200,000 visitors a year — has a third less staff than it had 15 years ago, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said in the letter.&# ...

From: San Francisco Bay View “As a former physician specialist for the San Francisco Department of Public Health and founding chair of the Radiological Subcommittee of the Hunters Point Shipyard Restoration Advisory Board, I hereby declare the Hunters Point Shipyard to be a public ...

From: Boise State Public Radio “”The Fish and Wildlife regional office is waging the equivalent of bureaucratic war against the National Bison Range,” says Ruch. PEER claims that war involves cutting budget and staff. Ruch says the refuge can see more than 200,000 ...

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 ...