Webinar | Public Employees, Free Speech, and the Rise of Authoritarianism
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PEER | January 30, 2026
Join public employees and legal experts for a timely examination of the increasingly complex legal, political, and social landscape impacting federal and state employees’ free speech rights ...
Government Lawyer and Investigator Aaron Lloyd Joins PEER as Senior Counsel
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PEER | January 29, 2026
Lloyd Brings Extensive Experience from Both Government Service and Private Practice ...
Interior watchdog sees both peril and promise in department shake-up
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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?
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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’
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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 ...