Washington, DC November 17, 2016 – The National Park Service has unveiled a comprehensive stewardship guide full of lofty terms, crammed into a mish-mash of confusing and clashing precepts, according to comments filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Despite its thorough vagueness, it purports to govern all “policies, plans, studies, and inventories; […]
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Cell Coverage to Wash Across National Park Wilderness
WASHINGTON, DC, Oct. 27, 2016 -North Dakota’s only national park is pushing to permit construction of a new Verizon cell tower right next to the state’s largest tract of designated wilderness. The plan would wire wilderness in violation of law, as well as contravene National Park Service (NPS) policy and the very purpose for which […]
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Far more hunting inside Denali than on its boundary
Washington, DC October 26, 2016 – Each year, hunters and trappers cut deeply into the populations of large mammals inside Denali National Park and Preserve, according to Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) figures released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Surprisingly, the toll on both predators and game animals inside the […]
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Lawsuit to Bare Full Range of EPA Radiation Rollback
Washington, DC October 24, 2016 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is illegally withholding the specific effects of its pending plan to dramatically hike permissible radiation exposure in our drinking water, according to a federal lawsuit filed today Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). While EPA is poised to allow vastly greater radioactive contamination than […]
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Klamath Irrigators’ Illegal Piggy Bank Broken Up
Washington, DC October 13, 2016 – A federal water agency misspent millions of dollars intended for fish and wildlife and drought relief in the Klamath Basin on irrigator subsidies, according to new audit report which confirms charges leveled last year by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The federal agency, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, […]
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EPA Caught Tossing Enforcement Files into Recycling Bin
WASHINGTON, DC, Sept. 28, 2016 – A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency office was throwing away files of active and closed enforcement cases, according to a report from the agency’s Office of Inspector General (IG) released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Despite a finding of criminal handling of official records and a referral […]
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Trail of Tears Illegally Defaced by Forest Service
Washington, DC September 19, 2016 – The U.S. Forest Service illegally tore up a section of the Trail of Tears Historic Trail but, despite apologizing to tribes who regard the land as sacred, has not held any officials to account, according to a complaint filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) calling for […]
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National Park Service Left With Centennial Hangover
Washington, DC August 24, 2016 – When the hoopla from this week’s centennial fades, the National Park Service will find itself an institution in deepening trouble. Record visitation not only masks but also aggravates a spiral sucking our system of nation parks downward, according to indicators highlighted by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Much […]
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EPA Should Keep Oversight of Florida Drinking Water
Tallahassee, FL August 24, 2016 – Florida’s recent track record gives ample reason why federal oversight is still needed to ensure safe drinking water in the Sunshine State, according to formal comments filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA is poised to act on a request […]
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Park Service Pours Bucket of Mush on Effigy Mounds Scandal
WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 15, 2016 – The National Park Service has exonerated all of its current employees from blame for the largest official mass desecration of Indian pre-historic burial sites in history, according to an agency report posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and Friends of Effigy Mounds. Despite years in preparation, […]
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Report: Don’t Drink the Water – Collapse of Florida’s Safe Drinking Water Enforcement Program
TALLAHASSEE, FL, Aug. 11, 2016 – More than one in eight public water systems in Florida is afflicted with pollution-related violations, many involving unsafe fecal or chemical contamination, according to official figures compiled by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Yet despite hundreds of recent drinking water violations, Florida enforcement efforts have shrunk to almost […]