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TeenVogue.com
April 19, 2018
That same year, a report released by the Florida chapter of the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility stated that in 2014 there was an 85% drop in environmental regulation cases opened by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection compared to 2010 numbers. In 2017, ScottÃâà...
The Revelator
April 19, 2018
The U.S. Government Accountability Office is reviewing a complaint filed in February by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility alleging that the acting Interior appointments violate the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. The complicated law outlines how long temporary, or acting, officials canÃâà...
CBS San Francisco Bay Area
April 17, 2018
Chesnutt's letter was made public last week by Washington, D.C.-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility after that organization obtained it in a Freedom of Information Act request. Derek Robinson, the Navy's coordinator of the cleanup, said the Navy's next step is to develop a new planÃâà...
San Francisco Bay View
April 11, 2018
by Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Washington, D.C. – Troubles afflicting the nearly 30-year radiation cleanup of San Francisco's Hunters Point Shipyard are far worse than previously reported. Between 90 and 97 percent of the U.S. Navy soil samples re-examined by theÃâà...
NBC Bay Area
April 9, 2018
A December 2017 letter sent by the EPA to the Navy – and obtained by a Washington D.C. advocacy group called Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) – explains that on about 40 percent of the shipyard, the EPA found between 90 percent and 97 percent of Tetra Tech's radiation dataÃâà...
Vox
April 6, 2018
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an environmental advocacy group for government workers, published a startling memo showing that Pruitt made himself the final authority on decisions surrounding the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act, the central federal law governing water pollution.
CNN
April 4, 2018
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility provided CNN with a copy of the memo dated March 30, 2018. In the memo calling for "regulatory certainty," Pruitt directed EPA regional offices to "cede their Clean Water Act determinations" to him, said Kyla Bennett, the New England director of PublicÃâà...
CW39
April 3, 2018
A challenge to Trump's pick of Wilkie could also be an attractive opportunity for groups that oppose the Trump administration's policies. An environmental watchdog group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, is taking that approach with a handful of Interior Department nominees who it saysÃâà...
WFTV Orlando
April 3, 2018
SANFORD, Fla. - Officials with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission rescued an injured manatee from Lake Monroe near a Sanford marina Monday morning. The manatee had been hit by a boat before noon, officials said.
GovExec.com
March 31, 2018
But the nonprofit group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has reached a very different conclusion—EPA's civil, criminal, and administrative enforcement actions against “pollution law violators are all on a sharp downward trajectory,” the group said. The agency's own annual review, whoseÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
March 24, 2018
The Washington Post obtained the letter from the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which also received it. Since taking office, Zinke has pledged to curb a culture of misconduct inside within the Park Service, which oversees 417 locations covering more than 84 millionÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 23, 2018
The group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, says it obtained a document through the Freedom of Information Act showing Grand Teton has at least tentative plans for 55 miles of fiber-optic cable and new cellphone towers at 11 specific locations. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley,File)Ãâà...
Jackson Hole News&Guide
March 22, 2018
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, is alleging a violation of the Freedom of Information Act relating to a June request for a trove of documents and correspondence with wireless companies. Executive Director Jeff Ruch said he begrudgingly tolerated the delayed fulfillment of theÃâà...
VICE News
March 16, 2018
Government watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) provided photos of the cards, shown below, to VICE News. The Washington Post and EE News independently confirmed their distribution. “These vision cards were created and sent out several months ago by theÃâà...
WPTV.com
March 12, 2018
There's a troubling trend when it comes to manatees and one group fears this year could be the worst ever. At Lake Park Marina, Jim Abernethy it noticing the trend. "Very difficult for manatees to survive," said Abernethy. According to the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, 166 manateesÃâà...
Florida Trend
March 12, 2018
In a rare Sunday overtime session, the Florida Legislature passed a budget of nearly $89 billion for next year to end a session that was overshadowed by the mass shootings in Parkland. It was the first scheduled legislative session on a Sunday in decades. More from the Times/Herald, the TallahasseeÃâà...
WLRN
March 12, 2018
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Executive Director Jeff Ruch says Florida manatees are one big freeze away from an ecological disaster. Red tide and boating deaths are another concern as manatees seeking warm waters often get stuck in residential canals. Florida's annualÃâà...
Fox 4
March 12, 2018
FORT MYERS, Fla., -- Manatee deaths could see a new record high this year, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). PEER says there have been 154 manatee deaths in seven weeks. “Usually there's so many of them, it's just whole different atmosphere," said P.J. Davis,Ãâà...
WTSP 10 News
March 11, 2018
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida is on pace for another cold, harsh record year for manatee deaths, according to an environmental watchdog group. Already, 166 manatees have died statewide, state statistics through March 2 show. Cold spells in January and February claimed 51 manatees statewide thisÃâà...
Futurism
March 9, 2018
These regulations mean that federal employees are held to a different standard than the president himself, noted in a press release by Jeff Ruch, the Executive Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). “Federal employees who get into Twitter spats with Donald Trump faceÃâà...
Florida Today
March 9, 2018
More than 150 manatees died in just the first seven weeks of 2018, putting Florida on pace to set an annual record for manatee deaths, according to the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit government watchdog group. “Florida's manatees are one big freeze away fromÃâà...
Agri-Pulse
March 7, 2018
OIG launched its investigation in March 2016 after a whistleblower complaint was publicized widely by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and subsequent litigation against USDA, Rone said in her memo. The complaint, by ARS entomologist Jonathan Lundgren, then based inÃâà...
RadioWest
March 7, 2018
“The fact that we have a president who is sort of the Twitterer-in-Chief in a position to basically shutdown social media competition is another one of the ironies here,” said Jeff Ruch, who works for the advocacy group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Ruch says a federal law, the HatchÃâà...
E&E News
March 6, 2018
Last month, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility asked Interior's inspector general to probe the agency's use of temporary or acting directors and whether it had violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, possibly making decisions invalid (Greenwire, Feb. 12). Interior's inspector generalÃâà...
YubaNet
March 6, 2018
Washington, DC March 6, 2018 – Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke repeatedly vows to move decision-making from inside the Beltway to the field level, but his numerous actions belie that intent, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Instead of becoming more decentralizedÃâà...
Motherboard
March 6, 2018
“Federal employees who get into Twitter spats with Donald Trump face career risks that the Tweeter-in-Chief does not,” Jeff Ruch, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in a press release. “Federal workers posting or sharing material about Trump even on theirÃâà...
Daily Yonder
March 1, 2018
Private ranchers get a discount of up to 80% from the market price for grazing rights, says a report from the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. The deal amounts to a subsidy for the livestock industry, according to the report.
The Hill
February 22, 2018
A pair of environmental groups representing public employees sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday, claiming officials failed to adequately take and maintain public records in violation of federal law. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and Citizens forÃâà...
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
But, according to the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which obtained photos of the cards and shared them with the Washington Post, supervisors in at least two B.L.M. field offices have been verbally “advising that employees must clip them to their lanyards.” SomeÃâà...
KGO-TV
December 31, 1999
This week, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility published a letter to the Navy. In it, the EPA says they found 90 and 97 percent of the soil samples on two major land parcels suspect compared to the Navy, which only recommended resampling 15 and 49 percent of those samples.
WIRED
December 31, 1999
Neither will Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a Silver Spring, Maryland-based group that has filed numerous lawsuits in the past year to obtain information from the EPA, Department of the Interior, and other federal science-based agencies. Ruch has beenÃâà...
E&E News
December 31, 1999
Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said that parks risk giving donors undue influence over management decisions by relying on their money and that it's wrong to force a public agency to ask for "spare change." He said the Interior Department, whichÃâà...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
Signed under the radar, Zinke's Jan. 12 order gave the acting directors for such bureaus as the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service “temporary re-delegation of authority,” according to the order obtained by watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
