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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

INTERIOR SECRETARY VOWS AN ETHICAL CULTURE AMID SCANDALS

New Directives in Wake of Griles Prison Sentence and Spreading Investigations

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ASKED TO PLEDGE OPEN GOVERNMENT

Will Next President Stop Scientific Manipulation and Whistleblower Retaliation?

OSHA ORDERED TO RELEASE TOXIC EXPOSURE DATABASE

More than 25 Years of Workplace Sampling Yields Public Health Research Bonanza

RANGERS CALL OFF-ROAD VEHICLES BIGGEST THREAT TO PUBLIC LANDS

“Rangers for Responsible Recreation” Launched to Combat “Wreck-reation”

FOREST SERVICE MISMANAGEMENT OF OFF-ROAD VEHICLES SPURS SUIT THREAT

Sportsmen, conservationists join to protect prized trout habitat in NC and TN