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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

FOREST SERVICE RANGERS AT RECORD LOW LEVELS

Assaults and Threats against Forest Workers Spike but Decline in Other Agencies

INTERIOR NOMINEE TIED TO ARCTIC REFUGE SCIENTIFIC FRAUD

Bernhardt Aided Misleading Congress about Oil Drilling Effects in Arctic Refuge

U.S. PARK POLICE FORCE LEVELS DROPPING – ESPECIALLY IN DC

Fewer Park Police Despite Record Visitation and Anti-Trump Demonstrations

PARK RANGER FORCE CONTINUES SHRIVELING AS VISITATION SWELLS

Park Law Enforcement Program Adrift without Standards, Resources or Leadership

BEAR MAULING DOES NOT DETER PARK OK OF NEW TRAIL RUN

Valles Caldera Minimizes Safety and Wildlife Impacts in Greenlighting another Race