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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

LIFT GAG ORDER MUZZLING NOAA SCIENTISTS

Rulemaking Petition to Commerce Secretary to Rescind Bush-Era Prior Restraints

OBAMA’S ORPHANED SCIENCE INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY PLEDGE

Promised Rules for Scientific Whistleblowers One Year Overdue and Counting

EPA SUSPENDS COAL ASH PROMOTION PROGRAM

Abrupt Removal of Own Website While Ash Re-Use Effort Is “Re-Evaluated”

NEW JERSEY FORFEITS MILLIONS ON PARK LEASES AND CONCESSIONS

Lapsed Leases, Below Market Rates and Sweetheart Deals Give Corporations Breaks

EPA FALSE CLAIMS OF GREENHOUSE GAS SAVINGS FROM COAL ASH

Complaint Filed to Delete Inaccurate Statements from EPA Website and Publications