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GROUPS SUE EPA OVER LACK OF RECORDS

From: The Hill

“"Under Scott Pruitt, the EPA has assumed a bunker mentality where paper trails are religiously avoided unless penned in invisible ink,” PEER counsel Adam Carlesco said…

EPA AND SCOTT PRUITT SUED BY GROUPS ALLEGING AGENCY VIOLATED FEDERAL RECORDS LAWS

From: CNBC

“These actions prevent Americans from obtaining records of EPA processes and decision-making through the Freedom of Information Act, according to Citizens for Responsibility…

TRESPASSING ALIENS; GARBAGE PRIVACY; BRAND YOUR CALVES

From: High Country News

“Apparently, the public will never learn about the reasoning, scientific or otherwise, that formed Pruitt’s opinion, because the Justice Department — representing…

DUELING LAWS AT PLAY IN WHETHER INTERIOR APPOINTMENTS ARE LEGAL

From: National Parks Traveler

“In essence, said Michael Nixon, PEER's strategic programs director, while the 1998 Reform Act did provide for some agency exceptions that allowed appointments…

ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP CHARGES INTERIOR WITH ILLEGALLY FILLING TOP VACANCIES

From: Government Executive

“The current top officers at the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management are working “in blatant violation…


News Releases

EPA’S JACKSON HAS CHECKERED CHROMIUM RECORD

New Jersey Tenure Marked by Stifling Health Warnings on Deadly Substance

FEDERAL AGENCIES FLYING BLIND IN CAPE WIND APPROVALS

Internal E-Mails Admit Huge Data Gaps, Inability to Monitor and Pursue Mitigation

SCIENCE TRANSPARENCY POLICY SWATHED IN SECRECY

White House Withholds All But Snippets on Why Science Guidance Went Off Course

NEW OBAMA SCIENCE INTEGRITY GUIDANCE: TIMID, TORN AND TARDY

Memo Sends Evasive Mixed Messages and Raises More Questions than It Answers

JERSEY COOLING TOWER U-TURN DERAILS NUKE POLLUTION CONTROL

Oyster Creek Reactor Can Keep Wreaking Havoc on Barnegat Bay Marine Life