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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

LOVE THAT DIRTY WATER: ROMNEY WATER POLLUTION RECORD

Hundreds of Corporate Waivers to Dump Toxics into Massachusetts Water Supply

CRUSADING EPA SCIENTIST RETURNED TO WORK

Her Termination Thrown Out due to Constitutional Violations by Agency

HOW WOULD THE ENVIRONMENT FARE UNDER A PRESIDENT ROMNEY?

Not Very Well, His Record as Massachusetts Governor Suggests

NEW JERSEY WAR ON “KILLER TREES” VIOLATES FEDERAL LAW

Bull's Island Is Habitat for Endangered Bat and Protected Migratory Birds

DISTURBING TOXIC AIR RESULTS CONFIRMED IN PATERSON, NJ

State Dissembles on Findings That 7 Air Toxics Are “Above the Health Benchmark”