WIELGUS AWAITS WSU SETTLEMENT RESPONSE
From: Daily Evergreen “Since then, a public employee advocacy group has filed ethics complaints on behalf of Wielgus against WSU, and against Rep. Joel Kretz, a rancher, saying he threatened to withhold WSU funding if the university did not silence Wielgus.” Read more . . . Read ...
TO SWAY SCOTT PRUITT, EPA OFFICIALS MUST “HOPE AGAINST HOPE”, SAYS FORMER INSIDER
From: PBS Frontline “Kyla Bennett, a former EPA employee and the New England director at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an organization representing government employees in environmental fields, said that in previous administrations, political appointees drafting ...
YELLOWSTONE LOOKOUT PROJECT WOULD HURT VIEWS AT MT. WASHBURN
From: San Francisco Chronicle “The finding that the project would have an “adverse effect” was included in a letter from Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk obtained by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
PEER FILES LAWSUIT TO QUIET SKIES OVER NATIONAL PARKS
From: National Parks Traveler “In a bid to bring some better management of park overflights into being, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, along with Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono, has sued the Federal Aviation Administration. According to the lawsuit filed last ...
FREE REIN FOR CHOPPERS DRIVES NATIONAL PARK ENTHUSIASTS TO COURT
From: Gears Of Biz ““The Park Service is supposed to protect parks for present and future generations but its jurisdiction in essence ends at the treetops,” Jeff Ruch, executive director of the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in a statement ...
LAWSUIT DEMANDS FAA DEVELOP AIR TOUR MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR NATIONAL PARKS
From: Rotor & wing International “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) has filed a lawsuit against the FAA, the organization said. The suit fights noise from helicopter tours flying around national parks in the U.S.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
DUNES PAVILION CHANGES WON’T GET A SECOND REVIEW
From: Chicago Tribune “Dunes Action, along with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, asked for the review late last month because of concern that modification of the pavilion might violate the National Historic Preservation Act.” Read more . . . Read the ...
RYAN ZINKE’S WEEK OF RECKONING: SCANDALS ROIL TRUMP’S INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
From: Truthout “”This ‘grip-and-grin’ tour is galling when the secretary is telling everyone else to tighten their belts,” said PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch, who filed for the records after park service employees complained about the time and expense lost ...
FREE REIN FOR CHOPPERS DRIVES PARK ENTHUSIASTS TO COURT
From: Courthouse News ““The Park Service is supposed to protect parks for present and future generations but its jurisdiction in essence ends at the treetops,” Jeff Ruch, executive director of the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in a statement ...
NATIONAL PARKS: HAWAIIANS, FEDERAL WORKER GROUP SUE OVER AIR TOUR NOISE
From: Greenwire “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono want FAA to draft plans or voluntary agreements to govern air tours in seven parks by two years from now.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...
GROUPS SUE FOR NOISE POLLUTION ABOVE NATIONAL PARKS, INCLUDING ONE IN UTAH
From: The Salt Lake Tribune “The lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono asks the court to order the FAA to draft either air tour plans or voluntary agreements governing air tours for seven parks within two years.” ...
INTERIOR: REPUBLICANS PRESS FOR ZINKE TRAVEL DETAILS
From: Greenwire “The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility today released documents that show Zinke used a National Park Service boat to take him, family members and two fishermen for a three-hour tour of the Channel Islands National Park after a Junior Ranger swearing ...
EPA PROPOSAL TO RESCIND CLEAN WATER RULE DRAWS PRAISE, FIRE
From: Law 360 “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to rescind the Obama-era Clean Water Rule drew nearly 200,000 responses, with many business and agricultural groups strongly supporting the elimination of a rule they criticized as an ...
ENVIROS HIT FAA WITH SUIT OVER AIR TOURS IN NATIONAL PARKS
From: Law 360 “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and the Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono are calling on the FAA to develop an air tour management plan or voluntary agreements to protect seven parks allegedly impaired by overflights, naming in their suit Bryce Canyon ...
GROUPS SUE FAA TO SEEK AIR TOUR PLANS FOR NATIONAL PARKS
From: Miami Herald “The lawsuit filed by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono asks the court to order the FAA to draft either air tour plans or voluntary agreements governing air tours for seven parks within two years.” Read ...
GROUP PETITIONS GOVERNMENT FOR CO DETECTORS IN ALL NEW CARS
From: NBC News 4 “Ruch said PEER filed a petition with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in March 2016 requesting the agency require all new vehicles be equipped with carbon monoxide detectors and a device that would shut off the car before fumes reach a deadly ...
ACTIVISTS HOPE COMPLAINT WILL STYMIE DUNES DEVELOPMENT
From: San Francisco Chronicle “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Dunes Action made the joint request in a complaint filed Thursday. It was sent to state and federal historic preservation officials and is just the latest in a long series of attempts to stymie the ...
DUNES ACTION, PEER: PAVILION PROJECT MAY VIOLATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT
From: Chesterton Tribune “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and Dunes Action are asking for a formal review of Pavilion Partners LLC’s plans to add terraces, balconies, and a rooftop bar to the Pavilion at Indiana Dunes State Park beach, on the ground that ...
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 ...
