From: Cape Cod Times “Equally troubling is the opaque process in which this 42-point plan came to be. According to the EPA, 107 department members worked on the report for a month before turning over the final document to Pruitt. But when the advocacy group Public Employees for ...

From: Washington Post ““One of the things he’s tried to do is repaint himself as an environmental governor,” said Jerry Phillips, a former enforcement attorney at the state’s Department of Environmental Protection who now runs the Florida field office for the nonprofit group ...

From: Newsmax “Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told the National Parks Traveler he was disappointed with the announcement, which was circulated in an internal email last week.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: New York Daily News ““It is disturbing but perhaps indicative that the Trump people would resurrect a political hatchet man to take the helm at the National Park Service,” Jeff Ruch of Public Employees for Responsibility told National Parks Traveler. “In the Snyder-gate ...

From: National Parks Traveler “Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, was disappointed that Secretary Zinke would bring Smith back into the Park Service. “It is disturbing but perhaps indicative that the Trump people would resurrect a ...

From: Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette “The Fish and Wildlife Service is required to assess how depredation orders affect the cormorant’s population every five years. A group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility sued the agency regarding how it was ...

From: Bloomberg ““A lot of the agencies they are going to are EPA and OSHA, which have severe cases of regulatory constipation,” Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which advocates for government employees, told Bloomberg Environment ...

From: Outside “That’s not to say the department is totally leaderless, says Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Employees “are getting direction. But they’re not getting direction from people that have any on-the-ground experience in ...

From: Pacific Standard “In June, the task force issued a report with 42 recommendations, which Pruitt adopted immediately. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the documents the task force used to create the ...

From: Burlington Record “No doubt, Pruitt’s EPA feels under siege from groups like PEER. But the environmentalists are correct to say it strains credulity to believe the Superfund report itself represents the full work product that led to the revised procedures. Were industry ...

From: Huffington Post “PEER’s staff is knowledgeable, organized and relentless in protecting federal employees’ right to bring their conscience to work and speak out against unlawful or reckless devastation of our environmental resources and health. “ Read more . . . Read the ...

From: Merced Sun Star “PEER, which has asked the Interior Department’s Inspector General to investigate, said that Yosemite is “violation of both federal laws and agency policies” by approving the towers without public notice or environmental review. The group also unearthed ...

From: NM Political Report “Despite the hopes of many, the Obama administration didn’t necessarily champion environmental issues or the agencies and employees working on natural resources. “For the most part, except in recent months, it had been benign neglect,” Jeff Ruch, ...

From: Eco Watch ““There has been a drop of employees of 770 between April and December. While several hundred of those are buyouts, the rest of those are either people that are retiring or quitting in disgust,” Kyla Bennett, director of New England Public Employees for ...

From: Mondaq / Foley Hoag “It turns out that, according to Johnny Walker, the DOJ attorney representing EPA in the litigation, there is a simple explanation for EPA’s failure to produce any documents – there aren’t any. According to the AP, Walker has told PEER that the Task Force ...

From: Raw Story ““The EPA did not respond with any materials,” Maddow said. “PEER sued and this week, almost six months later, they did not get the documents they were looking for but they did get a response from the EPA. And it’s amazing. Associated Press reporting, ‘a lawyer ...

From: MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show “Rachel Maddow reports on the disgraced former banker Albert Kelly, Scott Pruitt’s friend who he put in charge of an EPA superfund cleanup task force as qualified, experienced EPA staff flee the agency by the hundreds.” Read more . . . Read ...

From: FED Week “However, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility organization stressed that the survey also found that when employees complained, no action was taken in 64 percent of the cases and an official career action was taken against the persons responsible in only ...

From: Greenwire “EPA’s Superfund Task Force, which helped create the list, kept no internal records of its activities, according to the agency’s response to Freedom Of Information Act litigation by watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility” Read ...

From: Juneau Empire “On Monday, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said by email that a 9-cent per-barrel excise tax on all American crude oil will expire at the end of the year. That tax goes into the fund to pay for oil spills from a variety of sources, including ...