From: Mint Press News “Pruitt’s agenda means children and grandchildren will have to live with the greater threat of environmental disasters, such as “Hurricane Katrina, where small savings in flood protection levees resulted in one of the most catastrophic flooding and ...

From: ZME Science “While she admits that family concerns also played a hand in the decision, her blistering exit letter makes no qualms in criticizing the Trump administration’s fondness for outright lies.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: IFL Science “Dr Elizabeth Southerland had been working at the EPA for three decades, saying her work and the organization “has been the guiding light to make the ‘right thing’ happen for the greater good, including public health and safety.” Now, with the anti-science ...

From: Salon “Elizabeth “Betsy” Southerland is leaving the EPA after working there for more than 30 years, according to a report by Axios. In the memo explaining the reasons for her departure, she singled out the agency’s new (and Trump appointed) administrator Scott Pruitt.” ...

From: Huff Post “Faced with such painful choices, the best possible outcome for the American people would be regulatory paralysis where no new rules are released so that existing protections remain in place.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: The Hill “Elizabeth “Betsy” Southerland ended her 30-year run at the agency with a scathing exit letter in which she claimed that “the environmental field is suffering from the temporary triumph of myth over truth.” She last worked as the director of science and ...

From: Think Progress “In her farewell letter, posted publicly by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Southerland singles out several Trump-era regulatory rollbacks, which she argues are threatening the core mission of the EPA.” Read more . . . Read the PEER ...

From: National Parks Traveler “last week Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said that a superintendent of De Soto National Memorial who had admitted inappropriate behavior toward female employees was given a lateral transfer to a larger park to handle partnerships.” ...

From: Government Executive “In a statement released by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Southerland went public as a dissenter from the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda, saying, “Today the environmental field is suffering from the temporary triumph of ...

From: Washington Times ““The truth is,” she wrote, The Hill reported, “There is NO war on coal, there is NO economic crisis caused by environmental protection, and climate change IS caused by man’s activities.”” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: Town Hall ““The environmental field is suffering from the temporary triumph of myth over truth,” wrote Elizabeth “Betsy” Southerland, who had been at the EPA for 30 years, and was director of science and technology in the agency’s Office of Water.” Read more . . . ...

From: Ecowatch “A 30-year U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) senior official left federal service Tuesday convinced that her agency is being steered in a disastrously wrong direction, according to her farewell message posted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility ( ...

From: Greenwire “In the exit memo, released by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Southerland said EPA had often been “the guiding light to make the ‘right thing’ happen for the greater good” throughout her career.” Read more . . . Read the ...

From: Washington Post “In a statement planned for release Tuesday by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and during email and phone interviews with The Washington Post, she talked about how “EPA has been the guiding light to make the ‘right thing’ happen for ...

From: Yellowstone Insider “A representative of a group that advocates for federal employees said such problems remain entrenched — notwithstanding the planned actions at Yellowstone and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s pledge to show zero tolerance toward sexual harassment.” ...

From: Bradenton Herald ““The park service still doesn’t get it,” executive director Jeff Ruch said. “Generally, the high-level managers and supervisors escape responsibility and (the agencies) are more than willing to take action against lower-level people.”” Read more ...

From: WSB TV Atlanta “”The park service still doesn’t get it,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “Generally, the high-level managers and supervisors escape responsibility and (the agencies) are more than ...

From: Los Alamos Daily Post ““Not only are there fewer staff in many of these central offices, but the number of parks and refuges they support and the complexity of the management issues they face have both grown substantially during the past decade,” stated PEER Executive Director ...

From: National Parks Traveler “Despite the National Park Service’s pledge to take a zero tolerance approach to sexual harassment incidents, a park superintendent accused of inappropriate behavior against a female employee was transferred to a larger park and had received a cash ...

From: San Francisco Chronicle “”the full report was released last week through a public records request from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a group that advocates on behalf of government employees. Investigators with the inspector general forwarded evidence to ...