News Clips
Following are recent press clips from national publications that relate to PEER issues, campaigns and news releases.
From: Greenwire
“A $32 million Bureau of Reclamation program for irrigators in southern Oregon and Northern California was likely illegal, according to federal investigators who released…
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Aug 31, 2017
| Tags: California, DOI
From: Truthout Buzzflash
“To make matters worse, PEER just announced that Sally Bodine -- a protégé of both Pruitt and Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe (a notorious climate change denier)…
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Aug 31, 2017
| Tags: climate, EPA, Trump
From: Truthout
“Jeff Ruch, director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, points out that President Trump revoked a Federal Flood Risk Management Standard put in place…
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Aug 31, 2017
| Tags: climate, EPA, Trump
From: McClatchy DC
““Sally Jewell could have settled this whole thing while she was in office,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of PEER. “Instead she just accepted Reclamation’s…
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Aug 30, 2017
| Tags: California, DOI
From: National Parks Traveler
““These are not minor matters – these changes would forfeit whole spheres of national park stewardship,” PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch said last week.…
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Aug 29, 2017
| Tags: Commercializing Parks, Interior, NPS
From: Scientific American
“Agency officials were told they could not repeat their concerns to Congress, according to Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental…
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Aug 28, 2017
| Tags: NPS, Scientific Integrity, Trump
From: Government Executive
“EPA currently has 147 special agents in its Criminal Investigation Division, according to documents obtained through a federal records request by Public…
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Aug 28, 2017
| Tags: EPA
From: Esquire
“Agency officials were told they could not repeat their concerns to Congress, according to Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility,…
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Aug 25, 2017
| Tags: DOI, NPS, Trump
From: The Missoulian
“Reneau is named in a lawsuit filed last year by the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) that claimed the Fish and Wildlife Service had…
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Aug 25, 2017
| Tags: Montana, NWR
From: Greenwire
“EPA has less than half the special agents in its Criminal Investigation Division than it had in 2003, said Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. As the…
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Aug 24, 2017
| Tags: EPA