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NUMBER OF CRIMINAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROSECUTIONS KEEPS DROPPING

by | February 2, 2018
From: E&E News PM “”The U.S. averages more than 1,000 major industrial chemical accidents every year,” Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in an email. “Eliminating any federal capacity to learn the causes of ...

TRUMP TO AGAIN PROPOSE ELIMINATING CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD, OFFICIALS SAY

by | February 1, 2018
From: Bloomberg Businessweek “”The U.S. averages more than 1,000 major industrial chemical accidents every year,” Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in an email. “Eliminating any federal capacity to learn the causes ...

ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND FEDS REACH SETTLEMENT OVER BISON MANAGEMENT

by | February 1, 2018
From: Courthouse News Service “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) said “a new era may be dawning” over management of the National Bison Range in Moiese, Montana.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

BISON RANGE LAWSUIT SETTLED

by | February 1, 2018
From: Daily Inter Lake “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in May 2016, when the agency was considering transferring the range, home to an estimated 350 bison, to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.” Read more ...

SETTLEMENT FORCES NATIONAL BISON RANGE TO FORGE CONSERVATION PLAN BY 2023

by | February 1, 2018
From: KGVO “The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a group called PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) settled a lawsuit this week that focuses on a missing conservation plan for the National Bison Range. Though she’s not a public employee, Susan Campbel Reneau was ...

SCOTT PRUITT IS SLOWLY STRANGLING THE EPA

by Vox | January 30, 2018
From: Vox ““The problem at EPA right now is there is a chilling effect on enforcement,” Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told E&E News.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

SETTLEMENT REACHED IN LATEST LAWSUIT OVER NATIONAL BISON RANGE

by KPAX.com | January 30, 2018
From: KPAX.com “Development of a Comprehensive Conservation Plan, as required by law, ran into a snag a couple of years ago when the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed suit. PEER was particularly worried when the Fish and Wildlife Service began floating the idea that ...

U.S. AGREES TO CRAFT CONSERVATION PLAN FOR MONTANA BISON RANGE

by Great Falls Tribune | January 30, 2018
From: Great Falls Tribune “The settlement filed last week in U.S. District Court resolves a 2016 complaint from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, an advocacy group based near Washington, D.C.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

NATIONAL BISON RANGE SETTLES TIMELINE FOR PLAN

by | January 30, 2018
From: Missoulian ““During the litigation, (Interior Secretary Ryan) Zinke decided against the transfer,” said Paula Dinerstein, attorney for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which led a long list of opponents to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Bison ...

CLIVEN BUNDY IS A FREE MAN. HIS COWS ARE STILL A NUISANCE

by Mother Jones | January 29, 2018
From: Mother Jones ““There’s sort of a metaphor between Bundy and his cows: They’ve both gone rogue,” says Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit that represents employees from agencies such as the BLM. ” Read more ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK GETS NEW SUPERINTENDENT IN TRUMP SHUFFLE

by SF Gate | January 25, 2018
From: SFGate “The acting director of the National Park Service was shuffled out of his job Wednesday, reassigned to head Yosemite National Park while being replaced with a retired parks official who was once accused of skirting environmental law but is believed to be more sympathetic to ...

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DIRECTOR APPOINTED DESPITE SCANDAL

by Courthouse News Service | January 25, 2018
From: Courthouse News “Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke on Wednesday appointed as new National Park Service director the man who allowed the billionaire owner of the Washington Redskins to clear native trees on Park Service land.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

SENATE DEMS STRATEGIZE AHEAD OF PRUITT HEARING

by E&E News | January 25, 2018
From: E&E Daily ““With the continuing enforcement abdication by EPA, citizens, states, and localities will have to take public health protection into their own hands,” said Jeff Ruch, Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.” Read more . . . Read the ...

SENATOR MARKEY HOSTS DISCUSSION WITH FORMER EPA OFFICIALS WHO DECRY ATTACKS ON SCIENCE, SYSTEMIC DEFUNDING, WILLFUL NEGLECT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AT EPA UNDER SCOTT PRUITT

by Office of Senator Ed Markey | January 25, 2018
From: Office of Senator Ed Markey “Led by Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, chairman of the Senate Climate Action Task Force, the panel questioned three former EPA employees about what the lawmakers see as willful neglect, staff intimidation and a lack of regulatory enforcement under ...

Grand Canyon Remains Open, Blunting Biggest Hit of Government Shutdown

by Cronkite News | January 22, 2018
From: Cronkite News ““They are making it up on the fly,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “Try to keep as much open as possible, don’t spend any money, but don’t close anything,” said Ruch, of the administration’s ...

HOW STRONG IS THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT’S ETHICAL POLICY?

by National Parks Traveler | January 16, 2018
From: National Parks Traveler “Not long after he took office, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reminded his employees of their ethical obligations, and said “I intend to make holding one another accountable to the highest ethical standards a top priority.” Has he?” Read ...

BUNDY COURT DECISION DIDN’T OK ILLEGAL GRAZING

by The Wildlife News | January 16, 2018
From: The Wildlife News ““The feds shouldn’t avoid the chance now to ensure that some justice is served to the American public that is being robbed by this family. Gold Butte and the desert tortoise still deserve protection,” said Kirsten Stade of Public Employees for ...

Government Reorganization in the Dark

by Government Information Watch | January 16, 2018
From: Government Information Watch “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is suing the Office of Management and Budget for the submissions made by the public in response to an executive order signed by President Trump in March and ensuing guidance from OMB.” Read more ...

FOUR DECISIONS IN THREE WEEKS: HOW TRUMP IS TRANSFORMING ALASKA

by Alaska Public Media | January 16, 2018
From: Alaska Public Media “Finally, at the end of 2017, Congress allowed an excise tax collected on American oil to expire, which goes into a government trust used for oil spill cleanup and prevention. However, Congress could eventually renew the tax, and the current balance is ...

WHITE HOUSE SUED OVER ‘CLOAKED’ AGENCY REORGANIZATION PROPOSALS

by Government Executive | January 16, 2018
From: Government Executive “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is suing the Office of Management and Budget for the submissions made by the public in response to an executive order signed by President Trump in March and ensuing guidance from OMB.” Read more . . . ...
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