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AFTER PROMISING FIXES, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FACES RENEWED CRITICISMS OF TOXIC CULTURE

From: Government Executive

“The NPS culture is instead breeding corruption, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Specifically, PEER accused the agency of…

WATCHDOG: PARK SERVICE MANAGEMENT NOT HELD TO SAME STANDARD

From: Federal Times

““In the Park Service, immunity for its managers appears immutable,” PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch said in a release. He continued, saying that the only saving…

STRUGGLING U.S. NATIONAL PARKS FLOODED WITH VISITORS

From: Environment News Service

“An already thinning Bureau of Land Management is warned to get ready for further staff cutbacks, with possible buyouts if Trump targets are not met,…

SHUTDOWN THREAT RISKS STALLING WORK, PUSHING OUT STAFF

From: Bloomberg BNA

“Jeff Ruch, the director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in an email to Bloomberg BNA the logistics of closure were unclear. The prospect…

OUT AND ABOUT: BLANKET PHONE COVERAGE PROPOSED FOR PARKS

From: The Spokesman Review

“Yellowstone National Park would be blanketed with strong 4G cell coverage under a multisite expansion entering its final approval phase, according to comments…


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