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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

NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL BUDGET SHRINKS BUT TASKS GROW

New Corzine Initiatives Will Worsen Already Large State Environmental Deficits

NEW WALLA WALLA RIVER RULE LEAVES FISH HIGH AND DRY

Proposed Instream Flow Falls Short for Bull Trout and Steelhead Salmon

CONGRESS WEIGHS FATE OF TROUBLED SPECIAL COUNSEL

Special Counsel Threatens Effectiveness of Congressional Whistleblower Reforms

EPA TO DEFANG ITS INSPECTOR GENERAL

Immediate Buy-Outs to Remove Auditors, Criminal Investigators and Chemists

RARE BUTTERFLY PROTECTED BY EMERGENCY OFF-ROAD VEHICLE CLOSURE IN SAND MTN NEVADA

RENO, Nev.– Yesterday the Bureau of Land Management announced an emergency closure of 3,985 acres of public land in and adjacent to the Sand Mountain Recreation Area near Fallon, Nevada, to off-road…