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YELLOWSTONE'S CELL PHONE COVERAGE EXPANDS DESPITE PLANS TO LIMIT IT

From: WSAW TV

""It changes really how people relate to and experience wilderness if you're never in the wild, you're always connected," said Jeff Ruch, the executive director of Public…

INSPECTOR GENERAL SAYS RECLAMATION WASTED $32.2 MILLION ON KLAMATH IRRIGATORS

From: Indy Bay

"The misspending is a revealed in a new audit report that confirms charges leveled last year by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). In a news…

FISH FARMERS GRIM AS US FREEZES CORMORANT KILLING PERMITS

From: Arkansas Online

"Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, has said the group has no objection to Form 37 applications but cautioned…

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SAY BANQUET CENTER AT BEACH WOULD CONSTITUTE PUBLIC TO PRIVATE CONVERSION

From: Chesterton Tribune

"The proposed banquet center at Indiana Dunes State Park beach would constitute a conversion of public recreational land under the Land and Water Conservation…

KLAMATH IRRIGATORS' ILLEGAL PIGGY BANK BROKEN UP

From: Sonoran News

"“Basically, the Bureau of Reclamation became an illicit ATM for favored special interests,” stated PEER Senior Counsel Paula Dinerstein, noting that these illegal…


News Releases

EPA CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT CHIEF REMOVED

Slumping Enforcement Program Faces Restructure

MASSACHUSETTS AUTO EMISSIONS TESTS BADLY FLAWED

Cars Pass When They Should Fail, and Vice Versa

SETTLEMENT PUTS JACKSON BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN

Washington, DC--"Pursuant to a confidential Settlement Agreement mutually negotiated with the Park Service, Mr. Jackson will return to Yellowstone National Park as a Backcountry ranger in 2003 for his…

BUSH PLAN TO ROLL BACK DUNES CONSERVATION FACES BROAD CHALLENGE

Twelve Groups, Local Citizens Target BLM Off-road Plan

FOREST SERVICE TO BID OUT LAW ENFORCEMENT, FIRE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POSITIONS

Group Decries "Rent-a-Ranger"