News Clips
Following are recent press clips from national publications that relate to PEER issues, campaigns and news releases.
From: Alaska Public Media
“Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility cited internal Forest Service documents in its critique of Tongass management. The national forest includes…
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Apr 04, 2017
| Tags: Alaska, FS, USDA
From: Bloomberg
“"We understand the core missions of EPA are antipollution enforcement and regulation. They appear to be substantially cutting both," Jeff Ruch, executive director of…
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Apr 03, 2017
| Tags: EPA, Trump
From: E & E News
“Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, says the Forest Service allowed contractors at the two 2015 timber sales to cherry-pick the trees they…
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Apr 03, 2017
| Tags: Alaska, FS, USDA
From: New American Journal
“According to a recent statement by the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a national non-profit alliance of local, state and…
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Mar 31, 2017
| Tags: EPA, Trump
From: Panama City News Herald
“The following month, a group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility threatened to sue the state agency if it didn’t ban “swim-with”…
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Mar 31, 2017
| Tags: Florida, FWS, Manatees
From: Cape Cod Times
“...another plaintiff in the case, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, worries too that the draft supplement will not address that group's concerns…
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Mar 30, 2017
| Tags: DOI, Massachusetts
From: Buzzfeed
“Led by the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the suit claimed that the agency had not conducted an environmental review or drafted a…
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Mar 24, 2017
| Tags: DOI, FWS, Montana, NWR
From: NRDC
“When federal scientists launched @AltUSNatParkService and other rogue Twitter accounts to battle the Trump administration’s censorship of climate change facts on government…
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Mar 23, 2017
| Tags: BLM, EPA, NPS, Scientific Integrity, Trump
From: Missoula Independent
“"Secretary Zinke has repeatedly pledged to oppose the transfer of any federal lands," PEER Senior Counsel Paula Dinerstein said in a statement. "Now he has…
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Mar 23, 2017
| Tags: DOI, Montana, NWR
From: Inforum
“Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, based in Silver Spring, Md., is representing Lundgren in a whistleblower complaint that comes up in March before the…
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Mar 17, 2017
| Tags: Scientific Integrity, USDA