Letter to USDA Secretary Rollins – Department of Agriculture Reorganization Plan

by PEER | August 31, 2025
Letter to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins re: Memorandum SM 1078-015, Department of Agriculture Reorganization Plan ...

The unlikely alliance pressing Trump to regulate Pfas on US farms: ‘This is a basic human right’

by PEER | August 27, 2025
In Massachusetts, Bennett, the scientist, who is now with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Peer) non-profit, has been frustrated with the Biden and Trump administrations’ policies on sludge, and has sued the EPA under the Clean Water Act to force the agency to ...

FEMA Suspends Staff Who Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump

by PEER | August 26, 2025
Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit group that defends the rights of civil servants, said the Constitution protected the free speech of the FEMA workers. “They have strong First Amendment claims because they shared ...

SSA whistleblower warns of major security risk following DOGE data access

by PEER |
“In the past, government agencies have worked hard to keep that information safe and secure, both to protect the American people’s private data and to ensure that government agencies don’t use it for the wrong purposes,” Tim Whitehouse, executive director of Public Employees for ...

Yosemite feels the burn of an understaffed summer

by PEER |
At the same time, law enforcement ranks for all parks have been in precipitous decline. Since 2010, the number of park law enforcement positions has fallen by 48 percent, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit watchdog group. Read the PEER Story… ...
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