RYAN ZINKE'S GREAT AMERICAN FIRE SALE
From: The New Yorker
"In a speech to the National Petroleum Council last September, Zinke claimed that a third of the career civil servants under his command were “not loyal to the…
News Clips
Following are recent press clips from national publications that relate to PEER issues, campaigns and news releases.
AS SCIENTISTS MARCH, FEDERAL RESEARCHERS WEATHER TRUMP STORM
From: Wired
"It’s more benign neglect,” Ruch says of Trump-administration leadership at various agencies. “Science isn’t being used to inform decision making. They don’t need it, they…
AFTER BILLION-DOLLAR SUPERFUND CLEANUP, FOIA'D DOCUMENTS SHOW QUESTIONABLE DATA
From: Muckrock
"In what’s been dubbed the “biggest case of eco-fraud in U.S. history,” a contractor paid over $300 million to help clean a Cold War nuclear laboratory appears to have…
S.F. SUPERVISOR CALLS FOR HEARING INTO HUNTERS POINT CLEANUP
From: KQED News
"San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen is calling for a hearing into problems plaguing the cleanup of radioactive material from the Hunters Point Shipyard, after a federal…
EPA LETTER REVEALS NAVY'S DOWNPLAY OF RADIOACTIVE SOIL IN SF'S BAYVIEW
From: ABC7News
"This week, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility published a letter to the Navy. In it, the EPA says they found 90 and 97 percent of the soil samples…
ENERGY AND OTHER PROJECT DEVELOPERS TAKE NOTE: CLEAN WATER ACT'S REACH STILL UNCERTAIN FOLLOWING MULTIPLE DEVELOPMENTS IN Q1 2018
From: Lexology
"This action subjects safeguards for clean water across the U.S. to filtration through one politician's hands," said Kyla Bennet, a director of Public Employees for Environmental…
SF SHIPYARD ACTIVISTS FRUSTRATED BY NAVAL OFFICIALS ON ALLEGED SOIL TEST FRAUD
From: San Francisco Chronicle
"Executive Director Jeff Ruch said in a statement. 'The Navy created an environmental nightmare on this stretch of the San Francisco Bay but, instead of…
LETTER FROM EPA REPORTS NEW PROBLEMS WITH RADIATION DATA AT HUNTERS POINT
From: KRON4
"Instead of half the soil samples conducted by a subcontractor being questionable, they found 90 percent of the soil survey from Parcel B and 97 percent of samples from…
EPA REVIEW OF CONTAMINATED HUNTERS POINT SHIPYARD FINDS MORE FALSIFIED SOIL TESTING DATA
From: San Francisco Examiner
"The EPA’s December review of the data was released Tuesday by the environmental advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER),…
EPA LETTER REVEALS NEW PROBLEMS WITH HUNTERS POINT RADIATION DATA
From: NBC Bay Area
A December 2017 letter sent by the EPA to the Navy – and obtained by a Washington D.C. advocacy group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)…