by Kirsten Stade | Jun 3, 2020
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Contact: Jeff Ruch (510) 213-7028; Kirsten Stade kstade@peer.org Prosecution Unlikely Amid Sharp Decline in Interior Criminal Enforcement Washington, DC — For the past six weeks, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)...
by Tim Whitehouse | Jun 2, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis may have sent most of America into lockdown, but not the Interior Department, where the Trump administration practices no social or ethical distancing with the fossil fuel industry and other polluting friends. As the virus sweeps the country,...
by Kirsten Stade | May 11, 2020
For Immediate Release: Monday, May 11, 2020 Contacts: Peter Jenkins, PEER (202) 265-4189 pjenkins@peer.org; Erik Molvar, Western Watersheds Project (307) 399-7910, emolvar@westernwatersheds.org; Kirsten Stade, PEER kstade@peer.org Violations of Constitution and...
by Jeff Ruch | Apr 13, 2020
The still unfolding pandemic has underlined the public health risks that national parks and refuges pose both to the visiting public and their own employees. Over the past few weeks, more than 140 park units have shuttered with more closing every day. For the very...
by Jeff Ruch | Apr 8, 2020
As more than 100 national park units have closed, hundreds more remain open in unevenly evolving situation that is confusing, at best. Unfortunately for all of us, this same stop-start approach is also characteristic of the Trump White House’s overall response to the...
