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ZION NATIONAL PARK CONSIDERS LIMITING VISITORS, AND OTHER PARKS MAY FOLLOW SUIT

by | February 13, 2018
From: Backpacker “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which represents U.S. park rangers and other land managers, has come out in favor of putting visitation limits in place across the NPS.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

COMPLAINT CALLS ACTING DIRECTORS INVALID

by | February 12, 2018
From: Greenwire “In the six-page complaint lodged with Interior’s Office of Inspector General, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility contends the Trump administration’s use of temporary or acting directors violates a law that limits how long nonconfirmed officials ...

COYOTES IN PENNSYLVANIA – WHAT’S THE LATEST INFORMATION AND RESEARCH?

by | February 12, 2018
From: Penn Live “The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed the complaint against the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services’ use of a 1975 USDA study to support its mass-killing programs.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

GROUP SUES FOR ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC-INTEGRITY DOCUMENTS

by | February 12, 2018
From: E&E “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) says the agency failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request that sought research objectives and communications related to its scientific integrity policy.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

DNR POSTS PAVILION RELATED DOCUMENTS TO STATE PARK WEBSITE

by | February 12, 2018
From: Chesterton Tribune “The final document is a letter, dated Oct. 5, 2017, from the Advisory Council of Historic Preservation (ACHP) to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), following PEER’s own Sept. 24, 2017 e-mail seeking ACHP’s opinion on whether the ...

TRUMP PUTS PUBLIC, WORKERS AT RISK AS HE TRIES AGAIN TO ELIMINATE NATION’S CHEMICAL SAFETY AGENCY

by | February 5, 2018
From: Think Progress “The United States averages more than 1,000 industrial chemical accidents each year, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit group that investigates reports of environmental crimes from government employees.” Read more . . . ...

WORK TO BEGIN NEXT MONTH IN NEXT PHASE OF STATE PARK PAVILION DEVELOPMENT

by | February 5, 2018
From: NWI Times “He said a proposed glass enclosure on the roof and windows being replaced with balconies are significant architectural changes to the historic building. Sweeney said they will be talking with the National Park Service and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ...

BUNDY REIGNS: FEDS STILL IGNORING ILLEGAL GRAZING

by | February 2, 2018
From: The District Sentinel “The latest records were released Thursday by the watchdog group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). They were obtained following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. “Grazing trespass is a form of theft against the public that BLM ...

CHAR-KOOSTA NEWS: BISON RANGE LAWSUIT SETTLED

by | February 2, 2018
From: Char-Koosta News “The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has settled a lawsuit with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) regarding the National Bison Range. The settlement creates a five-year timetable for the completion of a statutorily-required Comprehensive ...

CAPE COD COYOTE HUNT SPURS DEBATE

by | February 2, 2018
From: Providence Journal “In December, a Maryland-based nonprofit group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service challenging the validity of a 1975 study used by the agency ...

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 ...
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