WORKERS’ GROUP ALLEGES LEGISLATORS AREN’T DOING ENOUGH ON SHIPYARD RADIATION CONTAMINATION
From: SF Gate “A public workers’ advocacy group at a rally in San Francisco today criticized Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, for allegedly failing to do enough about the cleanup of radiological contamination at the former Hunters Point ...
RYAN ZINKE’S GREAT AMERICAN FIRE SALE
From: The New Yorker “In a speech to the National Petroleum Council last September, Zinke claimed that a third of the career civil servants under his command were “not loyal to the flag,” by which he meant Trump.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
AS SCIENTISTS MARCH, FEDERAL RESEARCHERS WEATHER TRUMP STORM
From: Wired “It’s more benign neglect,” Ruch says of Trump-administration leadership at various agencies. “Science isn’t being used to inform decision making. They don’t need it, they aren’t interested in it.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
AFTER BILLION-DOLLAR SUPERFUND CLEANUP, FOIA’D DOCUMENTS SHOW QUESTIONABLE DATA
From: Muckrock “In what’s been dubbed the “biggest case of eco-fraud in U.S. history,” a contractor paid over $300 million to help clean a Cold War nuclear laboratory appears to have falsified soil samples and other data.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
S.F. SUPERVISOR CALLS FOR HEARING INTO HUNTERS POINT CLEANUP
From: KQED News “San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen is calling for a hearing into problems plaguing the cleanup of radioactive material from the Hunters Point Shipyard, after a federal report found contractors falsified soil sample data from the site to a much greater degree than ...
EPA LETTER REVEALS NAVY’S DOWNPLAY OF RADIOACTIVE SOIL IN SF’S BAYVIEW
From: ABC7News “This week, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility published a letter to the Navy. In it, the EPA says they found 90 and 97 percent of the soil samples on two major land parcels suspect compared to the Navy, which only recommended resampling 15 and 49 ...
ENERGY AND OTHER PROJECT DEVELOPERS TAKE NOTE: CLEAN WATER ACT’S REACH STILL UNCERTAIN FOLLOWING MULTIPLE DEVELOPMENTS IN Q1 2018
From: Lexology “This action subjects safeguards for clean water across the U.S. to filtration through one politician’s hands,” said Kyla Bennet, a director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “Every corporation that wants a pass on Clean Water Act ...
SF SHIPYARD ACTIVISTS FRUSTRATED BY NAVAL OFFICIALS ON ALLEGED SOIL TEST FRAUD
From: San Francisco Chronicle “Executive Director Jeff Ruch said in a statement. ‘The Navy created an environmental nightmare on this stretch of the San Francisco Bay but, instead of cleaning it up, has spent the past several years compounding it.'” Read more . . . Read ...
LETTER FROM EPA REPORTS NEW PROBLEMS WITH RADIATION DATA AT HUNTERS POINT
From: KRON4 “Instead of half the soil samples conducted by a subcontractor being questionable, they found 90 percent of the soil survey from Parcel B and 97 percent of samples from Parcel G of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard are suspect. That letter was obtained by the DC-based ...
EPA REVIEW OF CONTAMINATED HUNTERS POINT SHIPYARD FINDS MORE FALSIFIED SOIL TESTING DATA
From: San Francisco Examiner “The EPA’s December review of the data was released Tuesday by the environmental advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), which obtained the documents under the Freedom of Information Act. In its report, the EPA raised ...
EPA LETTER REVEALS NEW PROBLEMS WITH HUNTERS POINT RADIATION DATA
From: NBC Bay Area A December 2017 letter sent by the EPA to the Navy – and obtained by a Washington D.C. advocacy group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) – explains that on about 40 percent of the shipyard, the EPA found between 90 percent and 97 percent ...
FAKE SOIL TESTING AT SAN FRANCISCO SHIPYARD SITE COULD BE WORSE THAN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
From: San Francisco Business Times “What makes these findings so remarkable is that the Navy was on notice for years that it had a major data meltdown on its hands yet is still trying to cook the books.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
WHO CAN STOP JEFF SESSIONS FROM BREAKING HIS RECUSAL PLEDGE? PROBABLY NO ONE.
From: Mother Jones “It’s hard to think of a scenario where an attorney general would be held to account because of administrative violations,” says Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which represents federal whistleblowers. He ...
EPA STIFLES OPPOSITION TO GIANT ALASKA MINING DUMP
From: The National Memo “The Trump administration is trying to rush through a review of the Pebble Mine in Alaska with some public hearings not even having microphones for speakers. Also, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has stripped the regional EPA office of its power to make ...
SCOTT PRUITT’S ETHICS SCANDALS AREN’T STOPPING HIM FROM GUTTING THE EPA
From: Vox “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental advocacy group for government workers, published a startling memo showing that Pruitt made himself the final authority on decisions surrounding the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act, the central federal ...
HUNTING DECIMATING WOLF POPULATIONS AT DENALI NATIONAL PARK
From: National Parks Traveler “According to a release Tuesday from PEER, “studies show hunting and trapping outside Denali is having a big impact on the viability of wolf packs inside Denali, which is Alaska’s top tourist attraction, drawing more than a half-million visitors ...
THE SUN ALSO RISES FOR EPA’S SCOTT PRUITT
From: Washington Examiner “Twenty-four hours have passed since a flurry of bad headlines hit, and Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is still standing. Lobbyists, Trump donors and conservative advisers tell John the decision on whether he stays, or goes, will come ...
FORMER WATER OFFICIAL ACCUSES PRESS SHOP OF SMEAR CAMPAIGN
From: E&E News “In an effort to discredit me for speaking out and to intimidate current EPA employees, EPA may have provided my private employment information to media outlets and a political opposition research firm following my retirement,” Southerland said in a statement ...
PRUITT TAKES CLEAN WATER ACT DECISIONS AWAY FROM REGIONAL EPA OFFICES
From: Inside Climate News “Authority previously delegated to regional administrators to make final determinations of geographic jurisdiction shall be retained by the Administrator,” Pruitt wrote to EPA employees on March 30. The memo was made public on Wednesday by Public ...
ZINKE EXTENDS TENURE OF ACTING DIRECTORS
From: Greenwire “Jeff Ruch, executive director of PEER, said the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 is clear that the president — and only the president — can designate acting directors and assistant secretaries.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
