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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

MICHIGAN TORPEDOES ITS OWN GREAT LAKES RESTORATION PLAN

Small Savings from Wetlands Repeal Would Be Swamped by Higher Flood Damages

MICHIGAN THREATENS TO FUMBLE OBAMA GREAT LAKES INITIATIVE

State Plan to Abandon Wetlands Protection Undercuts New Great Lakes Effort

WHY THE OBAMA CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN WON’T WORK

Political Support for Cap & Trade Will Not Overcome Its Practical Shortcomings

RIDERSHIP FOR STOUGHTON LINE FALLS AS COSTS RISE

Worst Eco-Alternative Rail Line Will Cost Massachusetts $800,000 per Commuter

FOREST SERVICE AT SEA ON STATUS OF VAST MINERAL RIGHTS

Wilderness and Experimental Forests in 34 Eastern States Open to Drilling