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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

FDA SUED TO FORCE RELEASE OF LIVESTOCK DRUG RECORDS

Evidence of Agency Effectiveness in Combatting Rising Antibiotic Immunity Sought

NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGES TO REGULATE OIL AND GAS DRILLING

Agency Acts on PEER Rulemaking Petition to Curb Damage of Energy Production

ROMNEY TOXIC RECORD NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT

“Pave and Wave” Cleanups, Cancer Clusters Ignored and School Asbestos Worsened

EPA IN REGULATORY PRETZEL WITH A BUSINESS PARTNER

Navistar Licensing EPA Diesel Emissions Technology That Does Not Work

POLLUTION ENFORCEMENT IMPLODES UNDER FLORIDA’S SCOTT

Big Drop in Cases and Fines as DEP Staff Instructed to Avoid Enforcement