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COMMENTARY | Rebalancing Checks and Balances: How to Curb Executive Abuse
by Jeff Ruch | April 25, 2025
President Trump has conclusively demonstrated that the executive branch cannot be trusted to police itself in following the law ...
COMMENTARY | National Parks or Jurassic Parks? Conservation Trump Style
by Jeff Ruch | April 22, 2025
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum suggests that technology can replace the role of habitat and intact ecosystems in the survival of wildlife ...
COMMENTARY | Climate Hope & Public Employees in the Age of Trump
by Laurie Williams | April 16, 2025
The Trump Administration’s assaults against efforts to preserve a livable climate are breathtaking in their ambition. What can public employees and ordinary citizens do to help maintain climate hope during this critical time ...
COMMENTARY | Public Lands Unprotected: The Impact of Department of the Interior Law Enforcement Firings
by Guest Contributor | April 11, 2025
With understaffing of law enforcement officers and rangers already a severe problem, the new wave of terminations is exacerbating under-enforcement into crisis status ...
COMMENTARY | Overlooking the Obvious: Red King Crab Collapse Due to Overfishing
by Guest Contributor | March 26, 2025
NOAA claimed that the primary cause of the Bering Sea red king crab's collapse was warming seas caused by climate change rather than overfishing. A new NOAA study puts the lie to that alibi ...
COMMENTARY | Trump and the IGs – From Watchdogs to Lapdogs
by Jeff Ruch | March 25, 2025
The role of the Inspector General requires political independence to function properly. That independence is now irretrievably lost ...
COMMENTARY | May Federal Employees Be Activists?
by Colleen Zimmerman | March 4, 2025
PEER is engaged in precedent-setting work to secure the rights of federal employees to publish and be active in civic organizations on their own time ...
COMMENTARY | Trump’s Actions Are Undermining Our Response to Bird Flu – That is a Big Cause for Concern
by Tim Whitehouse | February 19, 2025
As scientists warn about the unprecedented nature of bird flu, the Trump administration’s actions are hobbling our ability to respond to it ...
COMMENTARY | Administration of “Alternative Facts” – No Fact Checkers Welcome
by Jeff Ruch | February 13, 2025
It is often said that everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not to their own set of facts. That cannot be said of Donald Trump ...
COMMENTARY | GOP Takes Aim at Scientific Integrity
by Kyla Bennett | January 27, 2025
The bipartisan support of federal scientific integrity policies is imploding, as evidenced by fiery letters from House Oversight Chair James Comer ...
COMMENTARY | Anonymous Activism and Whistleblowing in the Age of Trump
by Colleen Zimmerman | January 24, 2025
PEER anticipates a flood of requests for our legal services during Trump 2.0. Here's an overview of our approach to anonymous activism and whistleblowing ...
COMMENTARY | Three Things You May Have Missed About Project 2025
by Tim Whitehouse | January 22, 2025
With the election behind him, Trump is now embracing the people and ideas behind Project 2025, a conservative plan to radically remake the federal government ...
COMMENTARY | What to Expect from Trump II – A Preview Based on Trump’s First Term
by Peter Jenkins | January 2, 2025
The first Trump administration took rampant “bad government” steps that we must not forget. In recent weeks, President-elect Trump has already raised new threats to good government norms to a level that is unprecedented and frightening ...
COMMENTARY | Biden’s missed chance to safeguard America’s oceans
by Guest Contributor | December 28, 2024
Among President Biden’s many laudable environmental accomplishments, one of his historic failures is that he declined to protect America’s ocean ecosystems ...
COMMENTARY | The Federal Workforce Isn’t So Bloated
by Tim Whitehouse | December 6, 2024
In a climate where the size of government can trigger political outrage, it is essential to note that many agencies PEER works with are well-liked by the public and do important work with fewer resources ...
COMMENTARY | Musk and Ramaswamy: The Smartest Most Clueless Guys in the Room
by Jeff Ruch | November 23, 2024
An op-ed by the co-directors of the non-existent Department of Government Efficiency stands out for its sweeping scope and sheer cluelessness ...
COMMENTARY | PFAS Endangering Our Food Supply
by Laura Dumais | November 4, 2024
PEER is engaged in several efforts to prevent toxic PFAS from contaminating our food chain. Unfortunately, EPA is being more of a hindrance than a help ...
COMMENTARY | Perils of Public Service: Oklahoma City Bombing Omens Gathering Again
by Jeff Ruch | October 29, 2024
As in the mid-90s, anti-government sentiments are running rampant. But today, these paranoid fantasies are fed by ever-growing doses of misinformation pumped into ever-present social media ...
COMMENTARY | Maryland’s Renewable Energy Law: Are Reforms on the Horizon?
by Tim Whitehouse | October 28, 2024
Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson announced he would sponsor a bill to remove trash incineration from the state’s definition of renewable energy ...
COMMENTARY | Transitioning to Renewable Energy the Right Way
by Tim Whitehouse | October 25, 2024
As the country builds out renewable energy projects, our goal is to ensure that renewable energy development avoids intact ecosystems and heritage sites ...
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