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Canyon de Chelly in Arizona will become latest national park unit to ban commercial air tours

by PEER | December 20, 2024
Canyon de Chelly is the last of roughly two dozen national park units where the group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility had fought for flyover restrictions. Other national parks where such commercial flyovers essentially are or will be banned in coming years include ...

OPM delivers final rule on paid administrative leave, 8 years after law was passed

by PEER | December 19, 2024
The final rule also comes several months after the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a lawsuit against OPM to try to get the agency to finalize the long-awaited guidance on the Administrative Leave Act. “We like to think that our activism and advocacy and formal ...

Feds Finally Regulate Administrative and Investigative Leave

by PEER | December 17, 2024
PEER Petition and Lawsuit Prompted Move to Enforce 2016 Anti-Limbo Law ...

Conservationists sue Interior Department to protect historic Southwest trail from ‘eco-assault’

by PEER | December 16, 2024
Congress designated the Old Spanish Trail in 2002. The U.S. Department of Interior was then supposed to submit a plan for the trail’s use and management – but never did. That’s why the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is leading a lawsuit against the federal ...

Suits filed against biosolids companies

by PEER |
In a separate lawsuit filed against the EPA in June by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility on behalf of the farmers, the group claimed the agency failed to implement restrictions on PFAS in biosolids despite knowing the health risks posed by the chemicals. Johnson County ...