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After Trump’s Interior Secretary Transferred Thousands of Staff to His Office, Chaos Followed, Former Workers Say

by PEER | March 17, 2026
But Interior staff reorganized into Burgum’s office who later left say they encountered a hostile, inefficient work culture designed to push people out. Russell Vought, the powerful director of the federal Office of Management and Budget, said in a private speech between Trump’s two ...

LETTER | Tell Congress to Prioritize People Over Chemical Companies

by PEER |
Letter calling on the House of Representatives to reject provisions in the Farm Bill draft that grant chemical companies legal immunity and undermine the authority of local governments to protect their residents from harmful chemicals ...

Zeldin disciplined EPA dissenters after ethics office found no ‘concern’

by PEER | March 12, 2026
After reviewing the emails, Joanna Citron Day, general counsel for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said Fugh was “right that there’s no ethics issue.” “This was a bunch of employees expressing their protected First Amendment right to dissent by signing a ...

‘Forever chemicals’ found in vegetables from Long Island farm stands: study

by PEER | March 11, 2026
Kyla Bennett, science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said PFAS contain extremely strong carbon-fluorine bonds that allow them to persist in the environment for decades. “PFAS are synthetic; they’re all man-made,” Ms. Bennett said. “So ...