Public Employees Deserve Legal Protection
PEER counsels conscientious public employees facing career-changing moments of both crises and opportunity. We work on many fronts to protect public servants, specializing in whistleblower protections, First Amendment rights, and civil service laws. PEER plays an invaluable role in the environmental movement and in how the government operates. We aim to stop the assault on the government workforce and to give voice to the public servants who are working for transparency and accountability in government.
Across the country, those charged with protecting our environment are the victims of harassment, threats, assault, and intimidation both in the field and in the office.
PEER is there to protect conscientious public employees facing adverse consequences for simply doing their jobs.
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NEWS FROM PEER
What RIF Notices Mean for Federal Employees
Mass firings won’t meaningfully reduce the federal budget, but they will strip federal agencies of invaluable expertise and leadership.
Shutdown Could Provide Glimpse into the Future of Public Lands
The Department of Interior is gearing up to slash its workforce, and as past shutdowns indicate, this means danger ahead for our parks and public lands.
Webinar | Environmental Protection, Public Service, and the Rise of Authoritarianism
Listen in on an important, engaging and interactive discussion on the threats to environmental protection and public employees during the rise of authoritarianism and explore how we in the environmental movement can be more effective in our work.
STATEMENT | Trump Administration’s Most Recent Threat to Conduct Mass Firings Moves Us Further into a Lawless State
In response to the Trump Administration’s threat to conduct mass firings of government employees if there is a government shutdown, PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse issued the following statement.
En Masse Departure of EPA’s Top Scientists
World’s Leading Scientists Departing Public Service This Month
TAKE ACTION | Tell the USDA to Respect and Protect Forest Service Employees
Letter urging USDA Secretary Rollins to roll back the agency’s plans to eliminate or consolidate Forest Service Regional Offices and Research Stations.
STATEMENT | PEER Condemns EPA’s Latest Purge of Public Employees
EPA Begins Firing Signatories of Declaration of Dissent
Zeldin’s Claims of Absent EPA Employees Without Basis
Spreading “Misinformation” Is Hypocritical Reason to Punish Dissenters
Webinar | Speaking Up Under Trump: What to Know About Whistleblowing and Free Speech
Watch this webinar to delve into the challenges that government employees now face who work on environmental and natural resource management in the federal government.
TAKE ACTION | Protect America’s Farms and Food
Letter calling on the House of Representatives to remove Section 507 from the Interior & Environment Appropriations Bill and allow EPA to complete and act on its Risk Assessment for PFAS in sludge.
Does Trump’s Free Speech Order Protect Only Allies?
EPA Employees Suspended for Exercising Rights Trump Pledged to Protect
Comment – Proposed Rule – “Suitability and Fitness”
Comment to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in opposition to the Proposed Rule “Suitability and Fitness”
Trump Blinks on Loyalty Oath Essays for Job Applicants
Essays on Advancing Trump Agenda Will Not Be Mandatory or “Scored”
TELL CONGRESS | Stop Efforts to Sell Our Public Lands
Letter telling Congress to stop efforts to turn our public lands over to private commercial interests and environmental polluters.
Trump’s First Months in Office: PEER’s Response
PEER is working to protecting the integrity of the civil service and represent government employees under attack by the Trump administration.
Mass Involuntary Idling of Federal Employees Is Illegal
Excessive Use of Administrative Leave Harms Civil Servants and Taxpayers
Comment – Schedule P/C
Comment to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in opposition to the Proposed Rule “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service”
Trump’s New Employee Schedule Is a Formula for Corruption
Federal Employees’ Ability to Resist or Report Wrongdoing Disabled
TELL CONGRESS | Stop the Destruction of NOAA
Letter telling Congress to stop the destruction of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Amicus Brief – AFGE, AFL-CIO, et al. Motion for Preliminary Injunction
Brief of Amicus Curiae Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility in Support of American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, et al., Motion for Preliminary Injunction