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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.…


News Releases

SIX REACTORS HIGHLY VULNERABLE TO DAM-INDUCED INUNDATION

Operators Not Required to Prevent Fukushima Scenario Flooding and Meltdown

NEW JERSEY BULL’S ISLAND TREE HARVEST ON FAST TRACK

Plan Confines Visitor Access to “Safe, Managed, Pedestrian Pathway”

DOCUMENTS UNDERGIRDING PINELANDS PIPELINE PLAN UNAVAILABLE

Facts behind Key Economic and Environmental Findings Kept from Public Hearing

VINDICATED ARCTIC SCIENTIST RETIRES WITH CASH SETTLEMENT

$100,000 Payment and Belated Secretary’s Award Resolves Whistleblower Complaint

FOREST SERVICE DRONES STUCK IN HANGAR FOR 7 YEARS MAY TAKE OFF

Drone Deployment to Be Governed by Internal group with No Public Involvement