BUREAU OF RECLAMATION GOT IT RIGHT IN THE KLAMATH BASIN
From: News Deeply “The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) alleges improprieties regarding an agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and the Klamath Water and Power Agency (KWAPA) for a water-banking program. The report claims that Reclamation did not have authority for ...
SCIENCE AND ADVOCACY IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY
From: Jackson Hole News & Guide ““The unfortunate thing,” says Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a Washington, D.C., organization founded to protect whistleblowers, “is that by the time people usually contact us they’ve had ...
CALIFORNIA JOB FAIRS DRAW INTEREST FROM FEDERAL WORKERS
From: Bloomberg Government “Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a Washington-based nonprofit, told Bloomberg BNA Sept. 22 he’s not surprised that California is looking to poach federal employees from agencies with environmental missions ...
ETHICS COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST LEGISLATOR OVER WSU WOLF RESEARCH
From: Capital Press “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit activist group, has filed a complaint against Washington state Rep. Joel Kretz, alleging that he threatened to withhold university funding unless wolf researcher Robert Wielgus was fired. Kretz responded ...
CIVIL SERVANTS COMPLAIN TRUMP IS SIDELINING WORKERS WITH EXPERTISE ON CLIMATE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENT
From: Los Angeles Times ““The work of the EPA science arm has now been disconnected from the agency’s decision-making,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “It’s like a bureaucratic Dunkirk over there. ...
PUBLIC LANDS: BLM EXPLORES ‘FLEXIBILITY’ FOR RANCHERS ON GRAZING PERMITS
From: E & E News “The proposal comes less than a year after data compiled by Interior on the nearly 155 million acres on which grazing occurs showed that at least a quarter of federal rangelands don’t meet land health standards (Greenwire, Oct. 7, 2016). Public Employees for ...
REP. THREATENED WSU FUNDING, COMPLAINT STATES
From: The Daily Evergreen “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility listed a number of ethics violation allegations over the past decade, many of which involve threats to withhold university funding, including for the new Elson. S. Floyd College of Medicine and the Plant ...
ANGRY THAT SCOTT PRUITT PULLS AGENTS OFF ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS FOR HIS SECURITY DETAIL? THEN STOP DEMONIZING HIM
From: Washington Examiner “So when the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Jeff Ruch attacks Pruitt for allowing the “evaporation of criminal enforcement,” he should really be asking why his organization has demonized the administrator to ...
SCOTT PRUITT IS USING EPA INVESTIGATORS AS HIS PERSONAL BODYGUARDS
From: Death And Taxes ““These guys signed on to work on complex environmental cases, not to be an executive protection detail,” Michael Hubbard, former head of the EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division office in Boston, told the Post. “It’s not only not what they want to do, ...
INSTEAD OF PROTECTING THE EARTH, EPA AGENTS NOW FORCED TO SERVE AS PRUITT BODYGUARDS
From: Common Dreams “”[F]ewer agents generate fewer cases leading to ever-fewer convictions down the road,” Ruch concluded. “ Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
COMPLAINT CLAIMS WASHINGTON LAWMAKER PRESSURED WSU TO PUNISH WOLF RESEARCHER
From: Northwest Public Radio “PEER has filed an ethics complaint, citing numerous incidents over the past six years where Kretz contacted WSU administrators and researchers and issued threats in order to dictate the direction of the schools carnivore research, specifically that of Dr. ...
AT EPA, GUARDING THE CHIEF PULLS AGENTS FROM PURSUING ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES
From: Washington Post “Even before Pruitt’s security team expanded, the number of special agents inside the Criminal Investigation Division was declining. According to documents obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility under the Freedom of Information Act, their ...
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION NOMINEE WANTS TO OPEN PRISTINE ALASKAN REFUGE TO DRILLING
From: Think Progress “During his time as an aide at the agency during the George W. Bush administration, current Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt “substantially rewrote official biological assessments to falsely downplay impacts of drilling” in the refuge, according to Public ...
USGS: THOUSANDS OF WEBPAGES ARE GONE. AGENCY BLAMES SEARCH TOOL
From: Climatewire “”California is signaling its attempt to limit the effect of the Trump presidency,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which helped draft the legislation. “They would literally be the resistance.&# ...
NATIONAL MONUMENTS: ANGRY GREENS PROMISE LAWSUITS IF TRUMP ACTS ON ZINKE MEMO
From: Climatewire “In his 19-page memorandum, a copy of which was provided to E&E News by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Zinke also slammed nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that have previously supported new monument designations.” Read more . . . Read ...
NATIONAL MONUMENTS: ZINKE RECOMMENDS SHRINKING AS MANY AS 6 SITES
From: Greenwire “Although the order requested a final report by late August, Interior officials declined to release Zinke’s recommendations last month, asserting that the memorandum was a draft. A copy of the memorandum provided to E&E News by Public Employees for ...
NOMINATIONS: PRUITT’S NEW LEGAL ALLY IN CLIMATE RULE APPEAL
From: Climatewire “Jerry Phillips, a former enforcement attorney at Florida DEP and director of Florida Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), has been tracking Scott’s environmental enforcement record in the state… “From the minute Scott took over, ...
STATE OF ALASKA RENEWS EFFORT TO SEARCH FOR OIL IN THE ARCTIC REFUGE
From: The Wilderness Society “Joining the Trump administration’s assault on federal lands across America, the state of Alaska is preparing to renew efforts to explore for oil on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
PLANS TO REDUCE NUMBER OF GRAND CANYON BISON ADVANCE ON TWO FRONTS
From: Cronkite News “Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said then that the plan would turn the Grand Canyon “into a game farm managed for the benefit of Arizona Game and Fish … slaughter should not become a routine park wildlife ...
EPA: DEMS WORRY ENFORCEMENT PICK HAS ALREADY STARTED WORK
From: Greenwire “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility late last month voiced similar concerns after EPA officials indicated that Bodine would start at the agency on Sept. 5, before she is officially confirmed.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
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