Following are recent press clips from national publications that relate to PEER issues, campaigns and news releases.
From: Los Angeles Times
““The work of the EPA science arm has now been disconnected from the agency’s decision-making,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of the advocacy group Public…
From: The Daily Evergreen
“Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility listed a number of ethics violation allegations over the past decade, many of which involve threats to withhold…
From: Washington Examiner
“So when the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Jeff Ruch attacks Pruitt for allowing the "evaporation of criminal enforcement,"…
From: E & E News
“The proposal comes less than a year after data compiled by Interior on the nearly 155 million acres on which grazing occurs showed that at least a quarter of federal…
From: Death And Taxes
““These guys signed on to work on complex environmental cases, not to be an executive protection detail,” Michael Hubbard, former head of the EPA’s Criminal Investigation…
From: Common Dreams
“"[F]ewer agents generate fewer cases leading to ever-fewer convictions down the road," Ruch concluded. "
From: Northwest Public Radio
“PEER has filed an ethics complaint, citing numerous incidents over the past six years where Kretz contacted WSU administrators and researchers and issued…
From: Washington Post
“Even before Pruitt’s security team expanded, the number of special agents inside the Criminal Investigation Division was declining. According to documents obtained…
From: Climatewire
“"California is signaling its attempt to limit the effect of the Trump presidency," said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility,…
From: Think Progress
“During his time as an aide at the agency during the George W. Bush administration, current Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt “substantially rewrote official biological…