The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, is an organization that supports whistleblowers who have worked for government agencies. The nonprofit has filed complaints in the past on behalf of EPA scientists who alleged the agency’s managers often overlook or omit ...

According to an Aug. 7, 2023, letter from FWS Acting Regional Director Charles Traxler, the DNR has acknowledged that it sold logging permits on state Wildlife Management Areas, or WMAs, without documenting the habitat value of the sales before the permits were issued. The letter was ...

Impending Ban on HHS Scientists Raising Policy Implications of Research ...

Rick Steiner, board chair of PEER, also noted that killing operations are “economically counterproductive” in addition to being “scientifically bankrupt,” as “millions of tourists travel to Alaska spending billions of dollars annually—just to catch a glimpse ...

Alaska aerial hunting of bears and wolves sparks protest ...