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Trump to Place at Least 100 EPA Environmental-Justice Workers on Leave

by PEER | February 5, 2025
Employees on administrative leave are still on salary and get benefits. Federal agencies are only allowed to place employees on administrative leave for 10 days in a calendar year, according to Peter Jenkins, senior counsel at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. It is ...

Trump Is Targeting Key Environmental Employees Who Help Prosecute Polluters

by PEER |
“I think we’re going to see a breakdown across the whole system, where the federal agencies will be referring very few cases to the Department of Justice, and then there’ll be issues at the Department of Justice with carrying out the enforcement of these actions that the agencies ...

Trump’s proposed EPA leadership stacked with lobbyists and attorneys

by PEER |
The consequences for the attacks on the EPA and other agencies are “all connected”, said the former EPA official Kyla Bennett, now with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility non-profit. “By cutting the Clean Water Act and wetland protection, flooding is going to be ...

PEERMail | Battling the Musk-Trump Confederacy

by PEER |
We are working around the clock to keep up with the challenges public employees are facing and to challenge the onslaught of illegal activities by the Musk-Trump Confederacy ...