From: Albuquerque Journal “The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, made up of current and former state and federal government employees, recently criticized the decision to run a race through the Valles Caldera again this year.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story

From: Federal Times ““The U.S. Park Police are at a low ebb while facing a rising tide,” stated PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch in a press release. “In recent years, this force has not had the personnel to match its mission and that gap is only growing larger.”” Read more . . . Read the PEER...

From: Greenwire “”I am writing you on behalf of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) to express our opposition to the nomination of David Bernhardt as Deputy Secretary, Department of Interior and to urge your Committee to thoroughly investigate his role in political manipulation of science during his first stint at Interior before considering his nomination,”...

From: Los Alamos Monitor “Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility last week said the National Park Service is downplaying the threat of interactions between wildlife and participants in a 50-mile race on Saturday at the Valles Caldera National Preserve. “If you read the documents, they probably shouldn’t have approved it,” PEER Director Jeff Ruch said. “They’ve improperly...

From: Government Executive “The nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility heard from numerous EPA employees who spoke anonymously, having already received an all-staff memo from Pruitt that was “pro-business.” The employees “are shocked and dismayed that the Trump administration actually went through with this,” a PEER spokeswoman said. “People are simultaneously appalled but resigned. There’s a...

From: Santa Fe New Mexican “Jeff Ruch, executive director of the advocacy group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said the idea of moving BLM’s headquarters “seems more of a political stunt than a thoughtful proposal.”” Read more . . . Read the PEER story

From: Greenwire “…the agency also struggles with a $12 billion maintenance backlog, and many parks are operating without a full staff. The number of law enforcement rangers has also dipped to 1,331 in 2016 from 1,547 in 2006, according to numbers NPS released to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility” Read more . . . Read the...

From: National Parks Traveler “The issue of a signal bleed was raised last fall by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which worried that Verizon’s signal from the tower would “blanket designated wilderness with cell phone coverage.”” Read more . . . Read the PEER story

From: Inside EPA ““EPA is an aging agency,” says Kyla Bennett, the New England director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and a former EPA staffer. “Just by attrition, without being able to back fill, they will effectively reduce the force of the agency substantially.”” Read more . . . Read the PEER story

From: Greenwire “”We will defend any EPA employee who gets in trouble for expressing their views, but that’s not a good position for anyone to be in,” Ruch said.” Read more . . . Read the PEER story