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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

MOVE TO END FEDERAL FUNDING OF ALASKA PREDATOR CONTROL

State Should Repay Noncompliant Grants and Be Barred from Future Grants

NEW JERSEY HANDS DRINKING WATER SAFEGUARDS TO DUPONT

Corporate-Dominated Science Board Asks DuPont to Self-Assess Chemical Effects

WHY U.S. IS NOT EMBRACING INHERENTLY SAFER CHEMICAL PLANTS

Chevron Richmond Refinery Explosion Ignored in GOP Red Herring Oversight

FEDS PLAN MASSIVE CORMORANT SLAUGHTER AT MOUTH OF COLUMBIA

Unprecedented Killing of Thousands of Double-Crested Cormorants on Sand Island

LAWSUIT SEEKS BUNDY DOCUMENTS AND ATTACK STATS ON BLM STAFF

BLM Stonewalls on Nevada Standoff, Post-Incident Precautions and Lessons Learned