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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

ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURES RUINED IN LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST

Supervisor Retaliated Against Employee Whistleblowers

SPECIAL COUNSEL FINDS WRONGDOING IN UTAH LAND DEAL

Investigation to Target Top Norton Aides

APPRAISAL FOUNDATION BLASTS INTERIOR LAND EXCHANGES

Call for Moratorium and Criminal Investigation

GARBAGE RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION TRASHING ENDANGERED SPECIES AND DESERT PUBLIC LANDS

Conservationists challenge work to haul L.A.'s trash to dump near Joshua Tree NP

PARK SERVICE FORBIDS OFF-DUTY STAFF FROM WRITING ABOUT WORK ISSUES WITHOUT APPROVAL

Washington, DC - The National Park Service (NPS) has forbidden staff from privately publishing material on any work-related topic without approval from the agency, according to a directive released…