News Clips

Following are recent press clips from national publications that relate to PEER issues, campaigns and news releases.


WESTERN WATER: PROBE FINDS RECLAMATION MISSPENT FUNDS MEANT FOR WILDLIFE

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…

CRIMINAL POLLUTION CASES ARE DWINDLING AT THE EPA

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)…

PRUITT DELAYED EMERGENCY RULES FOR CHEMICAL PLANTS WEEKS BEFORE TOXIC FIRES ERUPTED IN HOUSTON

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…

AGENCY MISSPENT $32 MILLION, BUT INTERIOR HAS HELD NO ONE TO ACCOUNT

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…

NRA OFFICIAL LANDS SEAT ON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION BOARD

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.…

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S EFFECT ON NATIONAL PARKS

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…

EPA HAS SLASHED ITS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DIVISION IN HALF

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…

FREEDOM MEANS SHOOTING BEAR CUBS WHILE THEY'RE HIBERNATING

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,…

THIRD PUBLIC MEETING SET ON BISON RANGE MANAGEMENT PLAN

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…

EPA: DATA REVEAL 'EVAPORATION OF CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT'

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…