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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Project 2025: Are We Headed Toward An Extreme Public Lands Agenda?
by Chandra Rosenthal | October 15, 2024
Project 2025, the authoritarian playbook for a future Republican administration, would give the extraction industries nearly unrestricted access to public lands ...
Salmon and Orcas Die in Regulatory Gap – Stormwater Contaminants Poisoning Puget Sound Marine Life
by Peter Jenkins | September 9, 2024
Washington’s Puget Sound is an ecological treasure, yet its native salmonids and other aquatic life are facing increasing peril ...
Lead Ammo Harms Wildlife and Undermines the Mission of Our National Parks
by Chandra Rosenthal | August 30, 2024
More than 130 park wildlife species are exposed to or killed by ingesting lead or prey contaminated with lead ...
The Whistleblower and the Presidential Immunity Ruling
by Jeff Ruch | August 28, 2024
25 years ago, Congress fashioned remedies to check executive abuses. To limit damage from the Trump immunity ruling, it'll likely have to do so again ...
Elections Matter: The Inflation Reduction Act, Climate Change and Governance
by Tim Whitehouse | August 15, 2024
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has at least one major governance shortcoming; government agencies lack the capacity to manage IRA funds ...
Immunity Begets Impunity: Responding to Illegal Orders
by Jeff Ruch | August 13, 2024
The impact of the recent Supreme Court decision creating a sweeping constitutional presidential immunity will be felt for a long time ...
Treasured heritage at risk: The Old Spanish Trail
by Chandra Rosenthal | July 26, 2024
Despite the Old Spanish Trail's historical significance, BLM's controversial decision threatens to mar it with the blight of oil and gas development ...
BLM Unclear on Transparency
by Chandra Rosenthal | July 24, 2024
According to the latest Interior Department quarterly report on its backlog of unanswered FOIA requests, BLM leads as its least responsive agency ...
Science or Scam – NOAA Fisheries Gaslighting
by Guest Contributor | July 23, 2024
We keep hearing that we should "follow the science." Sometimes, though, scams are coated in scientific veneer ...
Project 2025: Wingnut Wing Flapping
by Jeff Ruch | July 23, 2024
The realities of a second Trump term are scary enough without the need to spend time worrying about boogeymen conjured up by the Heritage Foundation ...
EPA Lacks a PFAS Containment Strategy
by Tim Whitehouse | July 17, 2024
To stop the forever chemical crisis, EPA must interrupt the flow of PFAS reaching our water, soil, and food chain every day ...
America’s Ailing Overgrazed Rangelands
by Chandra Rosenthal | July 17, 2024
The latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management paint a bleak picture of the ecological health of America’s public rangelands ...
Trump’s Enemies List: Dismantling the Civil Service
by Peter Jenkins | July 10, 2024
If elected, Donald Trump will likely pick up where he left off – going after the federal merit system founded more than 140 years ago ...