Civil Service Appeal Backlog Ballooning Again

by PEER | July 7, 2025
Trump Monkeywrenches MSPB as Massive Reductions-in-Force Loom ...

Roughly 140 EPA staffers who signed ‘dissent’ letter are put on leave

by PEER | July 3, 2025
Tim Whitehouse, the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which has previously represented EPA and other federal employees, said that federal employees have First Amendment rights, which should protect speech that doesn’t harm the agencies they work for ...

Comment – Proposed Rule – “Suitability and Fitness”

by PEER |
Comment to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in opposition to the Proposed Rule “Suitability and Fitness ...

E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump

by PEER |
Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit group that defends the rights of civil servants, said the Constitution generally protects the speech of federal workers. “We believe strongly that these federal employees have First ...

EPA to launch program that lets people adopt its lab animals amid Trump cuts

by PEER |
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) nonprofit obtained and revealed an EPA document announcing the adoption program. The document announced adoptions for zebrafish and rats from an EPA lab in North Carolina. It states: “Adopt love. Save a life. Our adoption program ...
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