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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From: SFGate “The acting director of the National Park Service was shuffled out of his job Wednesday, reassigned to head Yosemite National Park while being replaced with a retired parks official who was once accused of skirting environmental law but is believed to be more sympathetic to ...

From: Courthouse News “Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke on Wednesday appointed as new National Park Service director the man who allowed the billionaire owner of the Washington Redskins to clear native trees on Park Service land.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: E&E Daily ““With the continuing enforcement abdication by EPA, citizens, states, and localities will have to take public health protection into their own hands,” said Jeff Ruch, Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.” Read more . . . Read the ...

From: Office of Senator Ed Markey “Led by Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, chairman of the Senate Climate Action Task Force, the panel questioned three former EPA employees about what the lawmakers see as willful neglect, staff intimidation and a lack of regulatory enforcement under ...

From: Cronkite News ““They are making it up on the fly,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “Try to keep as much open as possible, don’t spend any money, but don’t close anything,” said Ruch, of the administration’s ...

From: National Parks Traveler “Not long after he took office, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke reminded his employees of their ethical obligations, and said “I intend to make holding one another accountable to the highest ethical standards a top priority.” Has he?” Read ...

From: The Wildlife News ““The feds shouldn’t avoid the chance now to ensure that some justice is served to the American public that is being robbed by this family. Gold Butte and the desert tortoise still deserve protection,” said Kirsten Stade of Public Employees for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 . . . ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...