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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

NEW JERSEY FORFEITS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN POLLUTION DAMAGES

Court Ruling Faults DEP for Failure to Enact Rules to Compensate Public

WHITE HOUSE DECLARES SCIENCE PRIORITIES FOR FY 2009

Engineering over Environment, Applied over Basic, Corporate over Public

FEDS SAY NEW JERSEY WATER STANDARDS DO NOT PROTECT WILDLIFE

Bald Eagles, Falcons, Mussels and Others at Risk from Mercury, DDT and PCBs

ANOTHER AIRCRAFT CRASH IN FEDERAL COYOTE HUNT

Second Aerial Gunning Accident in Two Months as Call for Ban Mounts

AGENCY AUDIT VERIFIES WHISTLEBLOWER MISMANAGEMENT CHARGES

Interior Continues to Mangle Indian Trust Accounts, Losing Millions Monthly