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REPORT | Grazing Without Accountability

by PEER | January 28, 2026
This report examines the administrative loophole that allows the U.S. Forest Service and BLM to routinely reauthorize livestock grazing permits without conducting environmental review. It explores the risks to rangelands when permits are renewed without proper analysis and provides an ...

Interior watchdog sees both peril and promise in department shake-up

by PEER | January 27, 2026
According to a report issued last November by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the consolidation boosted the Interior Office of the Secretary staff level to nearly 8,200 employees, up from about 3,300 in September 2024, During the same period, the PEER report calculated ...

Are drugmakers talking to us or Trump when they pledge new NC factories?

by PEER | January 23, 2026
Within a six-month span last year, the EPA said it cut the number of rodents at its newly formed Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions from 466 down to 41. In place of mammals, the agency promotes emerging New Approach Methods like computer modeling and in vitro diagnostics ...

DOJ ends criminal prosecutions of vehicle emissions ‘defeat devices’

by PEER | January 22, 2026
The new policy comes as the watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility on Thursday issued a report saying that there has been a “collapse” of civil enforcement of environmental laws in Trump’s first year back in office. DOJ lodged consent decrees in ...

Watchdog warns of ‘collapse’ in environmental enforcement

by PEER |
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility said in a report released Thursday there is a “collapse of environmental civil enforcement” across programs designed to clean up air pollution, dirty water and toxic waste. Since his return to office, President Donald Trump has rallied ...