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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

OCEAN SCIENTISTS’ WORK SCREENED BY PUBLIC RELATIONS STAFF

All Outside Communication Monitored Contrary to New Scientific Openness Pledge

BIG WETLANDS LOSSES PLOTTED FOR GREEN POWER

Corps Prepares Broad Exemptions for Solar, Wind, Geothermal & Tidal Facilities

UNCONTROLLED MEDICAL DRUG DISCHARGES INTO DRINKING WATER

EPA Health Facility Guidance Is Weak, Contradictory and Counterproductive

FEDS ANNOUNCE EMERGENCY RULE TO PROTECT MANATEES

Expanded Manatee Refuge and Winter Limits on Boating, Swimming and Fishing

NEW JERSEY RUSHES TO HALLIBURTON-IZE TOXIC CLEAN-UPS

Election Eve Hearing Signals Desire to Rush Relaxed Contractor Standards