Advocates decry Trump’s plan to open 24m acres of federal lands to cattle grazing

by PEER | May 11, 2026
The plan also contains “unusual provisions to benefit” big agriculture, said Chandra Rosenthal, western lands and rocky mountain advocate with the Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility (Peer) non-profit. Among those is the establishment of “immersion and training programs ...

Workers paint Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue

by PEER | May 10, 2026
Tim Whitehouse, the executive director of nonprofit watchdog group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, told the BBC this project was evidence that “the system of checks and balances has broken down in the United States”. “Burgum is dispensing with a variety ...

Trump hands multimillion-dollar Washington project to his ‘pool guy’

by PEER |
The White House has been sued by the National Trust for Historic Preservation over its destruction of the East Wing, while there have been sustained complaints about the use of “no-bid” contracts. Tim Whitehouse, executive director of the watchdog group Public Employees for ...

The No-Bid Contract That Is Turning Washington’s Reflecting Pool Blue

by PEER | May 8, 2026
Mr. Trump paved over the Rose Garden’s lawn without seeking approvals. He has installed a 13-foot statue of Christopher Columbus on White House grounds without submitting a plan to any panel. And, most prominently, he tore down the historic East Wing of the White House without consulting ...