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““This is a huge change, and they made it over a few days, with almost no record, no documentation,” Mr. Ruch said, adding, “It wasn’t so much cooking the books, it was throwing out the books.”” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: Seattle Times “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a national nonprofit specializing in government scientist whistleblower protection, in April filed a 12-page complaint against WSU officials, alleging the university punished and silenced Wielgus to placate ...

From: Huff Post “These citizen groups – Public Citizen (see citizen.org), Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (see peer.org), The Government Accountability Project (GAP, see whistleblower.org), and numerous other organizations, including civil service retirees, are ...

From: CBC News “’Behind the scenes, there will be a witch hunt,’ says former EPA whistleblower Kyla Bennett, New England director of PEER.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: The Hill ““From our point of view, it’s kind of obvious,” said Jeff Ruch, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), when asked about staffers’ growing pushback.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: McClatchy DC “The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which describes its mission as protecting employees who protect the environment, expects to file suit as soon as this month over the group Trump set up to examine the Environmental Protection Agency’s program ...

From: Law 360 “In a complaint seeking a court order to see the documents, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said the Forest Service is shirking FOIA by withholding information” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: Washington Post “Jeff Ruch, PEER’s executive director, blasted the agency’s handling of the case, saying it “perpetuates a culture of impunity.” He said by issuing the talking points, the Park Service “re-victimized the victims and implied that they were not as valuable ...

From: Nature “Pruitt will have to be careful how he handles both documents, says Kyla Bennett, a former EPA ecologist who now works for the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in North Easton, Massachusetts. The EPA could ignore the climate report’s ...

From: PBS News Hour “The news comes on the heels of another report of sexual abuse at the De Soto National Memorial in Bradenton, Florida. A manager at the park is accused of inappropriately touching a female employee and abusing his power. The report, released thanks to a FOIA request ...

From: Inside Climate News “An internal review by the Environmental Protection Agency has found that its administrator did not violate its scientific integrity policy when he contradicted a fundamental tenet of climate science by denying that carbon dioxide pollution is the principal ...

From: Huff Post ““The question in our mind is whether or not these things are being done in a way that exercises responsible resource protection,” said Jeff Ruch, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which successfully sued Cape Wind for violating ...

From: Mint Press News “Pruitt’s agenda means children and grandchildren will have to live with the greater threat of environmental disasters, such as “Hurricane Katrina, where small savings in flood protection levees resulted in one of the most catastrophic flooding and ...

From: ZME Science “While she admits that family concerns also played a hand in the decision, her blistering exit letter makes no qualms in criticizing the Trump administration’s fondness for outright lies.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: IFL Science “Dr Elizabeth Southerland had been working at the EPA for three decades, saying her work and the organization “has been the guiding light to make the ‘right thing’ happen for the greater good, including public health and safety.” Now, with the anti-science ...

From: Salon “Elizabeth “Betsy” Southerland is leaving the EPA after working there for more than 30 years, according to a report by Axios. In the memo explaining the reasons for her departure, she singled out the agency’s new (and Trump appointed) administrator Scott Pruitt.” ...

From: Huff Post “Faced with such painful choices, the best possible outcome for the American people would be regulatory paralysis where no new rules are released so that existing protections remain in place.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story ...

From: The Hill “Elizabeth “Betsy” Southerland ended her 30-year run at the agency with a scathing exit letter in which she claimed that “the environmental field is suffering from the temporary triumph of myth over truth.” She last worked as the director of science and ...

From: Think Progress “In her farewell letter, posted publicly by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), Southerland singles out several Trump-era regulatory rollbacks, which she argues are threatening the core mission of the EPA.” Read more . . . Read the PEER ...

From: National Parks Traveler “last week Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said that a superintendent of De Soto National Memorial who had admitted inappropriate behavior toward female employees was given a lateral transfer to a larger park to handle partnerships.” ...