Coal ash and other coal combustion wastes are one of the largest waste streams in the United States. Re-use of coal ash has, with active support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency turned into a multi-billion dollar business that provides a huge subsidy to coal-fired power-plants. ...

Most public agencies do not maintain records on attacks against their own employees. In the absence of a centralized government tracking system or even reliable agency statistics, PEER keeps its own database of incidents of hostile acts and violence against government resource employees. ...

Enacted by Congress in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, the 1996 Anti-Terrorism Act directed the Attorney General to collect data “relating to crimes and incidents of threats of violence and acts of violence” against government employees and their families in the performance of ...

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Programs have friends, but bureaucrats do not, so focus your fire on the bureaucrats. — Frank Luntz, Republican political strategist and pollster Oklahoma City federal building in April 1995 Public Employees Are Not Punching Bags After the terrorist bombing of the Oklahoma City federal ...