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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

HUGE GAPS IN STATE WHISTLEBLOWER LAWS

State Employees Who Tell Inconvenient Truths Face Vastly Different Consequences

WASHINGTON WHISTLEBLOWER LAW AMONG WEAKEST IN NATION

State Ranks with Louisiana, Below Oklahoma and West Virginia in National Study

BIG HOLES IN NEW ENGLAND’S WHISTLEBLOWER LAWS

State Employees Who Tell Inconvenient Truths Face Vastly Different Consequences

NEW JERSEY WHISTLEBLOWER LAW HAS HUGE COVERAGE GAPS

State Ranks with Kentucky, Below Oklahoma and West Virginia in National Study

MASSACHUSETTS SUSPENDED WATER POLLUTION DISCHARGE LIMITS

No Monitoring for 1.4 Million Gallons per Day of Industrial Wastewater