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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

EPA LIBRARY CLOSURES HAMPERING AGENCY WORK, ARBITRATOR FINDS

EPA Guilty of Bad Faith and Unfair Labor Practice in Shutting Agency Libraries

U.S. FOREST SERVICE DROPS MASSIVE RESTRUCTURING

Avoiding “Additional Disruption and Confusion” Will Keep Biologists in the Forests

ONE-TIME FLUSH OF GRAND CANYON SPARKS HIGH-LEVEL FRACAS

Park Service Environmental Objections Quashed to Cement 5-Year Power Deal

SETTLEMENT IN WHISTLEBLOWER CASE OF INTERIOR LAWYER

Robert McCarthy Testified Against Government in Tribal Trust Accounts Trial

LEGAL PETITION TO SAVE NEVADA’S AMARGOSA TOAD

Off-Road Traffic and Habitat Destruction May Doom Toad without Intervention