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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

FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE IN FLORIDA: PORTRAIT OF A FAILED AGENCY

Obama Pick Piecemeals Florida Panther and Other Endangered Species to Extinction

TEFLON COATS PUBLIC AGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Jackson Sought to Have New Jersey PFOA Study Pulled from Publication

FUEL TAX SURPLUS COULD SAVE CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS

Funds Earmarked for Off-Road Recreation Which Generates Only 1/6th of Revenue

FEDERAL WILDLIFE AGENT WHISTLEBLOWER REINSTATED FOR APPEAL

Judge Finds “Substantial Likelihood” Whistleblower Will Prevail in His Complaint

ONE-THIRD OF WILDLIFE REFUGES USE GM CROPS IN SOUTHEAST

Genetically Modified Seeds Okayed by Obama Fish & Wildlife Service Director Pick Hamilton