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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 . . . ...

BUNDY VOWS STANDOFF IF BLM TRIES TO SEIZE CATTLE

by Greenwire | January 12, 2018
From: Greenwire “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and WildEarth Guardians also urged Zinke to seize the Bundy cattle.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

TRUMP DECISION FOR DEPUTY DOI DIRECTOR ATTRACTS HEAT

by | January 12, 2018
From: Kaplan Herald “”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. In the Snyder-gate affair, Smith demonstrated a complete lack of respect for protecting park resources or for ...

WATCHDOG SUES FOR REORGANIZATION COMMENTS

by | January 12, 2018
From: Greenwire “The six-page complaint from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that OMB has refused to divulge those comments.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

FOR FLORIDA PANTHERS, EXTINCTION COMES ON FOUR WHEELS

by | January 9, 2018
From: The Revelator “ “The Florida panther is suffering slow-motion extinction,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, in a recent public statement.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

TRANSPARENT TASK FORCE?

by | January 8, 2018
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 ...

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES COULD TAKE CENTER STAGE IN FLORIDA SENATE RACE

by | January 8, 2018
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 ...

TRUMP PICK FOR DEPUTY INTERIOR DIRECTOR DRAWS FIRE

by | January 8, 2018
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 ...

FORMER NATIONAL PARKS OFFICIAL WHO HELPED NFL OWNERCUT DOWN 130 TREES TAPPED FOR TOP AGENCY JOB

by | January 8, 2018
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 ...

FORMER NPS OFFICIAL FOUND TO HAVE OVERLOOKED ENVIRONMENTAL REGS SAID TO BE NEXT ACTING DIRECTOR

by | January 5, 2018
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 ...

STATE FISH FARMS HAVE OK TO KILL CORMORANTS

by | January 5, 2018
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 ...

FOR CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD, ADVICE TO FEDERAL AGENCIES PILES UP

by | January 3, 2018
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 ...

INSIDE RYAN ZINKE’S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

by | January 3, 2018
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 ...

EPA MARKS SEVEN SUPERFUND SITES AS CLEAN

by | January 3, 2018
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 ...

EPA FAILS PUBLIC IN LACK OF TRANSPARENCY ON SUPERFUND CHANGES

by | December 29, 2017
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 ...

FOR YEAR END CHARITABLE GIVING – SOME FAVORITES

by | December 28, 2017
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 ...

WIRE THE WILDERNESS? AS CELL SERVICE EXPANDS, NATIONAL PARKS BECOME THE LATEST DIGITAL BATTLEGROUNDS

by | December 28, 2017
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 ...

COVERING THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE AGE OF TRUMP

by | December 28, 2017
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, ...
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