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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

CLIMATE SCIENTISTS FREED FROM AGENCY GAG ORDER

Commerce Prior Review Policy Does Not Apply to National Weather Service Workers

TEN QUESTIONS THE SENATE SHOULD ASK LISA JACKSON

Committee Urged to Scrutinize Jackson’s Actions and Decisions in New Jersey

DRILLING AND MINING IN STORE FOR TWO ICONIC SOUTHWEST PARKS

Falling Commodity Prices Brings Brief Reprieve for Petrified Forest and Aztec Ruins

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT NEEDS NEW BROOMS TO SWEEP IT CLEAN

whistleblowers and reformers required to rejuvenate ravaged agencies

GLOBAL WARMING PROGRESS UNDER BUSH ILLUSORY, AUDIT FINDS

State Greenhouse Gas Plans, Such as New Jersey’s, Suffer from Same Pitfalls