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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

EPA IS FLYING BLIND, MULTIPLE STUDIES CONCLUDE

Breakdowns in Information Quality and Scientific Integrity Hamstring Agency

CORPS-FEMA FEUD PUTS FLORIDIANS IN FLOOD PATH

Long-Running Dispute Leaves Housing and Critical Care Facilities on Floodplains

EPA BEGINS CLOSING LIBRARIES BEFORE CONGRESS ACTS ON PLAN

End of Public Access to Technical Holdings as Original Collections Shuttered

BUSH ADMINISTRATION DENIES PROTECTION TO 16 DESERT SPECIES

Off-Road Pressure Leads to Reversal of Science on Unique Sonoran Wildlife

CALL FOR INSPECTOR GENERAL TO HEAD MERCURY DAY-CARE PROBE

Severe Toxic Problems Acknowledged in 2002 Internal “Vulnerability Assessment”